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