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What (who) is OBDURATE - definition
obdurate
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Obdurately; Obdurate (disambiguation)
If you describe someone as obdurate, you think that they are being unreasonable in their refusal to change their decision or opinion. (FORMAL)
Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
= obstinate
ADJ [disapproval]
Obdurate
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Obdurately; Obdurate (disambiguation)
·vt To Harden.
II. Obdurate ·adj Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
III. Obdurate ·adj Hardened in feelings, ·esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
obdurate
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Obdurately; Obdurate (disambiguation)
a.
1.
Hard, harsh, rugged, rough.
2.
Hardened, obstinate, firm, callous, unfeeling, stubborn, unyielding, dogged, pig-headed, inflexible, inexorable, cantankerous, hardhearted, unbending, unsusceptible, insensible.
3.
Depraved, graceless, shameless, reprobate, lost, impenitent, irreclaimable, incorrigible.
Examples of use of OBDURATE
1. Finally, yesterday, after two appeals, BA relaxed its obdurate stance.
2. Mr Sharon is typically characterised outside Israel as an obdurate warmonger.
3. Oliver Kamm The obdurate reputation of Israels Prime Minister is far off the mark.
4. He has enough problems without sticking his head into the maw of obdurate right–wing parties.
5. But though Mossad supports the obdurate Rice–Olmert view, military intelligence argues that Syria’s offers are sincere and serious.