obstinate
- (a) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield stubborn, unregenerate,
- (s) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing cussed, obdurate, unrepentant,
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(s) resistant to guidance or discipline
- Mary Mary quite contrary
- an obstinate child with a violent temper
- a perverse mood
- wayward behavior
Verbs
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(v) persist stubbornly
- he obstinates himself against all rational arguments