stubborn
Meanings
Adjective
- tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
Adjective Satellite
- not responding to treatment
- "a stubborn infection"
- "stubborn rust stains"
Adj
- Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
- Of materials: physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
Noun
- Stubbornness.
- Ellipsis of stubborn disease (“a disease of citrus trees”).
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English stiborne, stibourne, stoburn, stoburne, styburne, stiborn. Origin uncertain.
One theory is that the origin may come from *stybor, *stibor, from Old English stybb (“a stump, stub”) + adj. formative -or as in Old English bitor, English bitter.
Synonyms
adamant, contrary, disobedient, enduring, headstrong, insubordinate, obdurate, obstinate, perseverant, persistent, rebellious, refractory, undisciplined, unregenerate, unyielding, wayward, willful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
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