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obdurate
adj. stubborn; stiff-necked


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obdurate
Adjective
1. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
(synonym) cussed, obstinate, unrepentant
(similar) unregenerate, unregenerated
2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
(synonym) flinty, stony
(similar) hardhearted, heartless



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Obdurate
(v. t.)
To harden.
  
 
(a.)
Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
  
 
(a.)
Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
  

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About

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obdurate
adj.
1. harsh
سخت, تند, روکھا, اکھڑ
2. hardened in feeling
سنگدل, بے رحم, نٹھر, سخت, کٹھور, متمرد, ضدي, سرکش

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obdurate
Synonyms and related words:
adamant, asleep, benumbed, bony, brazen, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cement, cemental, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, concrete, conscienceless, corneous, dead, deadened, dense, diamondlike, dogged, dour, dull, dure, firm, flinthearted, flintlike, flinty, fundamentalist, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hard of heart, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hard-set, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hidebound, horny, immovable, impassible, impenitent, imperceptive, impercipient, impliable, indurated, inexorable, inflexible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insolent, inured, iron, iron-hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, lost to shame, marble, marblelike, mulish, muscle-bound, numb, numbed, obstinate, obtuse, orthodox, osseous, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, seared, shameless, solid, steellike, steely, stiff, stiff-necked, stonelike, stony, stonyhearted, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, thick-skinned, thick-witted, tough, unabject, unbending, unblushing, uncompassionate, uncompromising, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unperceptive, unrelenting, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, unsympathetic, untouched, unyielding
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.

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