obdurate

(ŏb'dʊ-rĭt, -dyʊ-)
adj.

1. 1. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: "obdurate conscience of the old sinner" (Sir Walter Scott).
   2. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.
2. Not giving in to persuasion; intractable. See synonyms at inflexible.

[Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdūrātus, past participle of obdūrāre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + dūrus, hard.]

obdurately ob'du·rate·ly adv.
obdurateness ob'du·rate·ness n.

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adjective

1. Completely lacking in compassion: callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, stonyhearted, unfeeling. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.
2. Firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will: adamant, adamantine, brassbound, die-hard, grim, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding. Idioms: stubborn as a mule/ox. See resist/yield.

adj

Definition: pig-headed, stubborn
Antonyms: amenable, compliant, gentle, submissive, susceptible, yielding

IN BRIEF: Stubborn and unfeeling.

Her obdurate demeanor left them no choice but to give up their plan and go home.

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• Dominant, Stubborn, Proud, or Confident

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - forstokket, umedgørlig, hård

Nederlands (Dutch)
verstokt, onvermurwbaar

Français (French)
adj. - obstiné, entêté, endurci

Deutsch (German)
adj. - verstockt, hartnäckig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αμετάπειστος, ισχυρογνώμονας, αμετανόητος

Italiano (Italian)
inflessibile, ostinato, duro, crudele, incallito, caparbio

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - obstinado, impenitente, intratável

Русский (Russian)
суровый, упрямый, закоренелый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - obstinado, terco, inflexible, duro

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - förhärdad, förstockad, hårdhjärtad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
顽固的, 冷酷的, 执拗的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 頑固的, 冷酷的, 執拗的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 완고한, 냉정한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 強情な, 頑固な, 冷酷な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) عنيد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עקשן, עמיד בפני שכנוע או השפעה‬

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