What is another word for stubborn?
1053 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ stˈʌbən], [ stˈʌbən], [ s_t_ˈʌ_b_ə_n]Table of Contents
Similar words for stubborn:- adamant (adjective)
- balky (adjective)
- bound and determined (adjective)
- callous (adjective)
- chronic (adjective)
- close-minded (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- contumacious (adjective)
- deaf (adjective)
- defiant (adjective)
- determined (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- doctrinaire (adjective)
- dogged (adjective)
- dogmatic (adjective)
- fanatical (adjective)
- froward (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- hard-core (adjective)
- hard-nosed (adjective)
- hell-bent (adjective)
- indomitable (adjective)
- inexorable (adjective)
- intractable (adjective)
- inveterate (adjective)
- iron (adjective)
- ironclad (adjective)
- obstinate (adjective)
- opinionated (adjective)
- persistent (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- purposeful (adjective)
- recalcitrant (adjective)
- set (adjective)
- single-minded (adjective)
- steadfast (adjective)
- stern (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- strong-willed (adjective)
- stubborn (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- tenacious (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- uncontrollable (adjective)
- unfaltering (adjective)
- unmoved (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- unyielding (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- bloody-minded (noun)
- bolshy (noun)
- bulldog (noun)
- bullet-headed (noun)
- bullheaded (noun)
- cantankerous (noun)
- contrarious (noun)
- difficult (noun)
- dour (noun)
- other synonyms
- bigoted
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Stubborn:
adj.
•adamant (adjective)- pat,
- hard-nosed,
- stubborn,
- standing pat,
- uncompromising,
- Unswayable,
- unbendable,
- immovable,
- insistent,
- hanging tough.
- unaffected,
- insensate,
- insensitive,
- insentient,
- torpid,
- apathetic,
- heartless,
- indifferent,
- unconcerned,
- thick-skinned,
- Indurated,
- cold,
- toughened,
- stony,
- careless,
- unfeeling,
- inured,
- uncaring,
- hardened,
- unsympathetic,
- hard-bitten,
- unsusceptible,
- impenitent,
- impassive,
- cold-blooded,
- unresponsive,
- soulless,
- insensible,
- hard-boiled,
- spiritless,
- hardhearted,
- unimpressionable,
- uncompassionate.
- deep-seated,
- confirmed,
- continuous,
- deep-rooted,
- Recurring,
- sustained,
- continuing,
- constant,
- ceaseless,
- continual,
- persisting,
- prolonged,
- routine,
- ingrained,
- habitual,
- inborn,
- long-lived,
- settled,
- inbred,
- incurable,
- recurrent,
- long-standing,
- lifelong,
- unmitigated,
- perennial,
- abiding,
- usual,
- lasting,
- enduring.
- unpersuadable,
- close minded,
- more unpersuadable,
- un-persuadable,
- most unpersuadable,
- closeminded,
- un persuadable,
- closedminded,
- closed minded.
- conflicting,
- diametric,
- contradictory,
- counter,
- adverse,
- opposed,
- nonconforming,
- converse,
- reverse,
- dissident,
- antipodal,
- antithetical,
- inconsistent,
- hostile,
- inimical,
- froward,
- wayward,
- discordant,
- antipathetic,
- antipodean,
- clashing,
- nonconformist.
- factious,
- alienated,
- haughty,
- Pig-headed,
- irreconcilable,
- mutinous,
- insurgent,
- disaffected,
- estranged,
- seditious.
- confrontational,
- insubordinate,
- audacious,
- resistant,
- defiant,
- bold,
- insolent,
- daring,
- dissenting,
- challenging,
- rebellious.
- earnest,
- on ice,
- resolved,
- intent,
- decided,
- buckled down,
- unflinching,
- mean business,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- decisive,
- bent,
- serious,
- bent on.
- dictatorial,
- unrealistic,
- fanatical,
- doctrinaire,
- biased,
- stiff-necked,
- magisterial,
- dictative,
- one-sided,
- speculative,
- bigoted,
- authoritarian,
- impractical,
- authoritative.
- hardheaded,
- staunch,
- most perseverant,
- un-flagging,
- most perseverative,
- most hardheaded,
- un flagging,
- more perseverative,
- more perseverant.
- in tolerant,
- most wrong-headed,
- peremptory,
- more wrong headed,
- wrong headed,
- un equivocal,
- un-equivocal,
- most wrong headed,
- narrowminded,
- most fascistic,
- de finite,
- Over-bearing,
- narrow minded,
- de-finite,
- more wrong-headed,
- over bearing,
- in-tolerant,
- high mighty,
- more fascistic.
- in corrigible,
- monomaniacal,
- more bugged,
- most monomaniacal,
- mono-maniacal,
- nuts for,
- de voted,
- more obsessive,
- de-voted,
- in-corrigible,
- obsessive,
- more monomaniacal,
- most obsessive,
- mono maniacal,
- most bugged.
- fore-boding,
- most glowering,
- more glowering,
- more foreboding,
- splenetic,
- most splenetic,
- more splenetic,
- most scowling,
- most crabbed,
- most foreboding,
- fore boding,
- forbidding,
- more scowling,
- grisly.
- most unsentimental,
- hard nosed,
- nononsense,
- un-sentimental,
- tough minded,
- toughminded,
- stubborn as mule,
- more hard nosed,
- more unsentimental,
- un sentimental.
- in-superable,
- in vincible,
- in-vulnerable,
- in-vincible,
- un-conquerable,
- un-beatable,
- un-assailable,
- in superable,
- more undefeatable,
- un beatable,
- in surmountable,
- un assailable,
- most undefeatable,
- un conquerable,
- in-surmountable,
- in vulnerable.
- in escapable,
- in exorable,
- un appeasable,
- un-movable,
- un movable,
- like death taxes,
- un-appeasable,
- in-exorable,
- in-escapable.
- more bull headed,
- un pliablest,
- bull headed,
- most bull-headed,
- unpliablest,
- un-pliablest,
- unpliabler,
- un pliabler,
- un-pliable,
- un pliable,
- in tractable,
- in soluble,
- un-cooperative,
- in-soluble,
- un cooperative,
- un-pliabler,
- more bull-headed,
- in-tractable,
- most bull headed.
- inelastic,
- rigid,
- adamant,
- study at obstinate,
- mulish,
- bovine,
- pertinacious,
- inflexible,
- obdurate,
- hidebound,
- brass-bound.
- persistent,
- in terminable,
- most bulldogged,
- un-remitting,
- never ending,
- more bulldogged,
- un remitting,
- inter-minable,
- in-terminable.
- de-generate,
- un healthiest,
- bad tempered,
- un-reasonable,
- un-healthiest,
- dis-obedient,
- un-healthy,
- un reasonable,
- de generate,
- badtempered,
- un healthier,
- un healthy,
- dis obedient.
- in-tenser,
- in tense,
- un-deviating,
- de-liberate,
- playing hard ball,
- tele logical,
- more purposive,
- in-tense,
- in-tensest,
- un deviating,
- most telelogical,
- tele-logical,
- more telelogical,
- in tenser,
- most purposive,
- de liberate,
- most undeviating,
- more undeviating.
- more withstanding,
- more insubmissive,
- un willing,
- un-disciplined,
- more undisciplinable,
- un-willing,
- most undisciplinable,
- with-standing,
- in submissive,
- un disciplined,
- un-governable,
- in-submissive,
- un disciplinable,
- un-disciplinable,
- with standing,
- most withstanding,
- most insubmissive.
- Sited,
- most jelled,
- more situate,
- pre scribed,
- most well set,
- pre-determined,
- most positioned,
- most well-set,
- located,
- most situate,
- hard and fast,
- well set,
- more well-set,
- more concluded,
- re-gular,
- most stipulated,
- wellset,
- un flappable,
- more positioned,
- hard fast,
- most wellset,
- more sited,
- pre determined,
- most concluded,
- more well set,
- pre-scribed,
- more wellset,
- re gular,
- more jelled,
- more stipulated,
- most sited.
- most never failing,
- un questioning,
- re-liabler,
- re-liable,
- more neverfailing,
- never failing,
- true-blue,
- re liabler,
- more never failing,
- neverfailing,
- un qualified,
- most neverfailing,
- steadfast,
- liege,
- un swerving,
- re-liablest,
- more never-failing,
- re liablest,
- trueblue,
- un-questioning,
- un-swerving,
- un-qualified,
- most never-failing.
- hangtough,
- more hangtough,
- flinty,
- most mortified,
- most hang-tough,
- more hang tough,
- most hangtough,
- most hang tough,
- by book,
- stern,
- more hang-tough,
- more mortified,
- hardshell.
- un gainlier,
- un graceful,
- more unrelaxed,
- most unrelaxed,
- un relaxed,
- un-natural,
- un gainliest,
- un gainly,
- un-relaxed,
- unrelaxed,
- un-graceful,
- un-gainly.
- more iron willed,
- most iron willed,
- iron-willed,
- strongwilled,
- most mullish,
- more ironwilled,
- strong willed,
- most ironwilled,
- ironwilled,
- iron willed,
- more mullish,
- most iron-willed,
- more iron-willed.
- flintlike,
- indefatigable,
- brave,
- devoted,
- unforgetful,
- tireless,
- true,
- hearty,
- retentive,
- faithful,
- strong,
- fervent,
- plucky,
- undaunted,
- diligent,
- spunky,
- courageous,
- unflagging,
- dauntless.
- more hard shelled,
- most hard shelled,
- unforgiving,
- un-forgiving,
- most ruffianly,
- more hardshelled,
- un forgiving,
- most hardshelled,
- hardshelled,
- hard shelled,
- more ruffianly,
- most hard-shelled,
- more hard-shelled.
- more unflexible,
- un bending,
- hold fort,
- hold ones ground,
- re-served,
- sticking guns,
- in-compliant,
- un flexible,
- sticking one guns,
- re served,
- standing ones ground,
- standing one ground,
- standing ground,
- in elastic,
- hold one ground,
- sticking ones guns,
- sticking to one guns,
- un-flexible,
- sticking to ones guns,
- in-elastic,
- sticking to guns,
- un-bending,
- in compliant,
- most unflexible,
- do die,
- standing one's ground,
- hold line,
- sticking one's guns.
- going all way,
- going the way,
- un tiring,
- un-tiring,
- un-failing,
- un faltering,
- un-faltering,
- un failing,
- going way.
- un stirred,
- dis passionate,
- un touched,
- un moved,
- un-moved,
- un-stirred,
- un-emotional,
- dis-passionate,
- un emotional,
- un-touched.
- unhelpful,
- disinclined,
- unwilling,
- unconsenting,
- non-consenting,
- noncooperative,
- Resisting,
- squeamish,
- uncooperative,
- uncomplying.
n.
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- narrow,
- remorseless,
- resist,
- conservative.
- dour.
Other synonyms:
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- intolerant,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- Hard-headed,
- reactionary,
- suburban,
- Incompliant,
- meat and potatoes,
- small-minded,
- adamantine,
- bigot,
- shockproof,
- invulnerable,
- indestructible,
- flameproof,
- indissoluble,
- heatproof,
- heat-resistant,
- ineradicable,
- rustproof,
- fireproof,
- inviolate,
- shatterproof,
- unadventurous,
- uncompliant,
- brassbound,
- water-resistant,
- unbreakable,
- irresistible,
- parochial,
- unassailable,
- neoconservative,
- sturdy,
- narrow-minded,
- stodgy,
- blinkered,
- small town,
- stuffy,
- closed.
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- die-hard,
- incorruptible,
- bombproof,
- defensible,
- impregnable,
- sectarian,
- well-built,
- severe,
- unbeatable,
- unshakable,
- invincible,
- bulletproof,
- deaf,
- heavy-duty,
- rooted,
- industrial-strength,
- repulsive,
- durable,
- weatherproof,
- unrelenting.
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- substantially,
- stout,
- Cast iron.
-
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- waterproof.
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- sure.
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- tight.
- harsh,
- untoward,
- hear,
- tangled,
- doggedness,
- rapt,
- Unlimber,
- self-opinionated,
- definitely,
- attachment,
- Procrustean,
- set upon,
- turbulent,
- aggressive,
- desperate,
- hardy,
- plaguy,
- hard fact,
- genuinely,
- invariable,
- petulant,
- undisciplined,
- tumultuous,
- cussed,
- gummy,
- Ironbound,
- Nonelastic,
- unhesitant,
- fidgety,
- disagree,
- adherent,
- cattle,
- unwearied,
- segregationist,
- overzealous,
- no joke,
- defensive,
- authentically,
- attach,
- surely,
- ox,
- complaint,
- hold,
- clearly,
- obstructive,
- correctly,
- fixed,
- no doubt,
- stormy,
- unwieldy,
- unconquerable,
- inextensile,
- oxen,
- changeless,
- pigheaded,
- Intractile,
- brazen,
- bane,
- outline,
- unchanging,
- cocksure,
- Plugging,
- fast,
- pugnacious,
- preoccupied,
- overbearing,
- rugged,
- labyrinthine,
- unswerving,
- leatherlike,
- convoluted,
- Starched,
- importunate,
- disorderly,
- apparently,
- unblinking,
- emphatic,
- perseverance,
- isolated,
- unregenerate,
- get,
- undiscouraged,
- immutable,
- sound,
- unshaken,
- make an effort,
- bull,
- diehard,
- gutsy,
- Rhadamanthine,
- wiry,
- ungovernable,
- sinful,
- provincial,
- necessity,
- single-minded,
- awkward,
- unmoving,
- overconfident,
- uninterrupted,
- willful,
- unequivocally,
- solidify,
- established,
- plodding,
- assume,
- primarily,
- play,
- stroppy,
- restrain,
- evidently,
- admittedly,
- lawless,
- muscle-bound,
- coriaceous,
- adhere,
- forceful,
- rebel,
- limited,
- sleepless,
- understand,
- appendix,
- naughty,
- absolutely,
- bad,
- stalwart,
- domineering,
- purist,
- imperious,
- confine,
- adhesive,
- hopeless,
- ironhanded,
- gristly,
- categorical,
- energetic,
- become solid,
- petty,
- Unintermitting,
- obstruct,
- definite,
- indubitably,
- noncompliant,
- unrepentant,
- repress,
- distinctly,
- pontifical,
- starch,
- regional,
- unfailing,
- secure,
- rightly,
- wilful,
- against the grain,
- unvarying,
- gluey,
- obstinately,
- ill-behaved,
- tense,
- Invious,
- decidedly,
- despotic,
- leathery,
- credibly,
- check,
- fractious,
- suppose,
- naturally,
- rightfully,
- unsubmissive,
- rockbound,
- urgent,
- sinewy,
- obstreperous,
- sedulous,
- affect,
- puritanical,
- Ungiving,
- inhibit,
- viscid,
- twister,
- unremitting,
- unconquered,
- wicked,
- anarchic,
- catch,
- unreformable,
- pinch,
- unmalleable,
- stark,
- partial,
- depraved,
- consolidate,
- contain,
- gritty,
- sexist,
- certain,
- Inconvincible,
- prejudiced,
- indeed,
- inert,
- decisively,
- cartilaginous,
- compelling,
- straightlaced,
- tenacity,
- illiberal,
- curb,
- short-sighted,
- unregulated,
- antagonistic,
- surmise,
- unaccommodating,
- plainly,
- stubbornness,
- rigorous,
- forgive,
- Puristic,
- stifle,
- quell,
- unvaried,
- knotted,
- untiring,
- villainous,
- positive,
- unbowed,
- uncultured,
- condone,
- local,
- overweening,
- restricted,
- violent,
- bulldoggy,
- Sequacious,
- refractory,
- Irresilient,
- presume,
- epitome,
- be attached to,
- summary,
- synopsis,
- straitlaced,
- unquestionably,
- tornado,
- Clingy,
- knotty,
- certainly,
- unreasonable,
- belligerent,
- bind,
- illness,
- ailment,
- icy,
- indocile,
- inextensible,
- orthodox,
- in fine feather,
- obstinacy,
- stable,
- impracticable,
- insular,
- bulletheaded,
- devotee,
- patient,
- restrict,
- vexatious,
- ropy,
- revolting,
- assiduous,
- stick on,
- break in two,
- twist,
- subdue,
- in high feather,
- sulky,
- unadaptable,
- hypocrite,
- pertinacity,
- arrogant,
- hard-working,
- unreconstructed,
- riotous,
- patently,
- affection,
- intricate,
- indurate,
- unalterable,
- differ,
- incisive,
- undisputedly,
- chauvinist,
- arbitrary,
- cohesive,
- conventional,
- cool,
- unmanageable,
- uncultivated,
- undoubtedly,
- disobedient,
- suppress,
- cast-iron,
- unsleeping,
- set in one's ways,
- assuredly,
- incorrigible,
- strict,
- fundamentalist,
- tacky,
- inalterable,
- stringy,
- irreversible,
- fibrous,
- heady,
- unsophisticated,
- pushy,
- resin,
- proof,
- positively,
- sticky,
- puritan,
- ossified,
- expect,
- vigorous,
- tempestuous,
- assertive,
- racist,
- originally,
- Inductile,
- never-tiring,
- complicated,
- thorny,
- self-adhesive,
- Unrelaxing,
- inextensional,
- unwearying,
- Weariless,
- industrious,
- glutinous,
- trying,
- permanent,
- Unpliant,
- balking,
- unfluctuating,
- Rigorist,
- laborious,
- austere,
- Undrooping,
- unworldly,
- combative,
- pathless,
- impossible,
- fanatic,
- puritanic,
- interpret,
- stubbornly,
- trackless,
- chewy,
- unregenerated,
- congeal,
- stunt,
- openly,
- slogging,
- Untractable.
Paraphrases for Stubborn:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
tenacious, persistent, dogged, obstinate.
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Verb, past participle
obstinate.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
strenuous, entrenched, stupid, tough, steadfast, diehard, blinkered, die-hard, fierce, resolute, stiff, violent, recurrent, protracted, recalcitrant.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
headstrong, intransigent, relentless, indomitable, intractable, feisty, insistent, narrow-minded, Hard-headed, hard-nosed, strong, shortsighted, rigid.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Stubborn:
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adj.
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adamant
pliant, flexible, submissive.
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balky
cooperative.
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callous
sympathetic, tender, feeling, sensitive, nice, kind, compassionate.
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chronic
curable, eradicable, temporary, intermittent, occasional.
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contrary
concordant, accommodating, correspondent, similar, homogeneous, like, harmonious, agreeing, alike, obliging.
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contumacious
obedient, subordinate, tractable, following.
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determined
hesitating, irresolute, weak, vacillating, wavering.
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doctrinaire
amenable, manageable.
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stubborn
broad-minded, complacent, yielding, compliant, giving.
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Other antonyms:
complying, persuadable, accepting, complaisant, governable, responsive, manipulable, slavish, subservient, temperate, placable, acquiescent, agreeable, gentle, receptive, willing, reasonable, dutiful, undecided, teachable.
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adamant