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obstinate

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"Stubborn"

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒb.stɪ.nət/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted abeinosttStarts with OEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Stubbornly refusing to change an opinion or course.

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English obstinat(e) (“obstinate, stubborn”), from Latin obstinātus, perfect passive participle of obstinō (“set one's mind firmly upon, resolve”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ob (“before”) + *stinare, from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of ostinato.

Used in a sentence

  • From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish […] those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable […]
  • […] the junior Osborne was quite as obstinate as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments
  • an obstinate blockage in the pipe

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