Synonyms for stubborn
ˈstʌb ərnstub·born

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1. stubborn

   The headstrong person is not to be stopped in his own course of action, while the obstinate and stubborn is not to be driven to another's way. The headstrong act; the obstinate and stubborn may simply refuse to stir. The most amiable person may be obstinate on some one point; the stubborn person is for the most part habitually so; we speak of obstinate determination, stubborn resistance. Stubborn is the term most frequently applied to the lower animals and inanimate things. Refractory implies more activity of resistance; the stubborn horse balks; the refractory animal plunges, rears, and kicks; metals that resist ordinary processes of reduction are termed refractory. One is obdurate who adheres to his purpose in spite of appeals that would move any tender-hearted or right-minded person. Contumacious refers to a proud and insolent defiance of authority, as of the summons of a court. Pertinacious demand is contrasted with obstinate refusal. The unyielding conduct which we approve we call decided, firm, inflexible, resolute; that which we condemn we are apt to term headstrong, obstinate, stubborn. Compare PERVERSE.

   Synonyms:
   contumacious, decided, determined, dogged, firm, fixed, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, resolute, resolved, unconquerable, unflinching, unyielding

   Antonyms:
   amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, dutiful, gentle, irresolute, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, teachable, tractable, undecided, wavering, yielding

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1. stubborn

   Synonyms:
   tough, unbending, unyielding, hard, obstinate, intractable, obdurate, stiff, harsh, inflexible, headstrong, refractory, heady, contumacious, pig-headed

   Antonyms:
   docile, tractable, manageable, pliant, pliable, malleable, flexible

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1. stubborn, obstinate, unregenerateadjective

   tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

   Synonyms:
   unreformable, obstinate, wayward, cussed, obdurate, unrepentant, unregenerate, refractory, perverse, unregenerated, contrary

   Antonyms:
   meek, yielding, sheeplike, tractable, manipulable, docile, sheepish, tame

2. refractory, stubbornadjective

   not responding to treatment

   "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

   Synonyms:
   recalcitrant, fractious, refractory, obstinate, unregenerate

   Antonyms:
   manipulable, sheeplike, sheepish, docile, tractable, meek, yielding, tame

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1. adamant

   being fixed in a particular thing.

   harry is very adamant

   Submitted by V7 on January 10, 2021  

2. aquiclude

   person that is not easily believing or accepting something

   he didn't believe me when i said that i scored a goal because he's an aquiclude.

   Submitted by rinat on March 27, 2016  

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1. stubbornadjective

   Synonyms:
   obstinate, unyielding, inflexible, positive, contumacious, refractory, perverse, headstrong, cantankerous, wilful, dogged, mulish, unruly, unmanageable, ungovernable, intractable, indocile, heady, cross-grained, obdurate, stiff, pig-headed

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1. stubbornadjective

   Synonyms:
   unyielding, obstinate, obdurate, mulish, refractory, indocile, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, perverse, contumacious, impersuadable, recalcitrant, stiff-necked, rugged, persistent, incompliant

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1. List of paraphrases for "stubborn":

   obstinate, headstrong, tenacious, intransigent, diehard, hard-nosed, persistent, hard-headed, die-hard, dogged, willful, feisty, wayward

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1. Hillary Clinton:

   In retrospect, this didn't turn out to be convenient at all and I regret that this has become such a cause celebre. But that does not change the facts, the facts are stubborn -- what I did was legally permitted.

2. Martin Bell:

   Tiny and Mary Ellen were a lot alike, stubborn. Smart. Independent. They understood each other.

3. John Dryden:

   Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

4. Ellie Hamby:

   We’re both independent, very stubborn. But we seem to allow each other to give space, we just understand each other and we know this is a good thing we’re doing and we kind of respect each other’s feelings.

5. Thurman Conroy:

   The fire wants Thurman Conroy and his wife bad because it’s made every attempt it can to get out of that canyon and up this way, so they keep beating it down. And it’s just … it’s resilient, it’s stubborn, it wo n’t go away. That’s all Thurman Conroy and his wife can do.