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Synonyms & Antonyms of obdurate
1
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
- the obdurate refusal of the crotchety old man to let the neighborhood kids retrieve their stray ball from his backyard
Synonyms for obdurate
- affectless,
- callous,
- case-hardened,
- cold-blooded,
- compassionless,
- desensitized,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-hearted,
- heartless,
- indurate,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- insensate,
- insensitive,
- ironhearted,
- merciless,
- pachydermatous,
- pitiless,
- remorseless,
- ruthless,
- slash-and-burn,
- soulless,
- stony
- (also stoney),
- stonyhearted,
- take-no-prisoners,
- thick-skinned,
- uncharitable,
- unfeeling,
- unmerciful,
- unsparing,
- unsympathetic
Words Related to obdurate
- grim,
- hard-bitten,
- harsh,
- heavy-handed,
- ironfisted,
- ironhanded,
- jackbooted,
- knock-down, drag-out
- (or knock-down-and-drag-out),
- oppressive,
- rough,
- rough-and-tumble,
- severe,
- sledgehammer,
- stern,
- tough,
- ungentle
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2
sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
- an obdurate farmer who could never be convinced to try a different method of fertilization
Synonyms for obdurate
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- bullheaded,
- dogged,
- hard,
- hard-nosed,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inconvincible,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- mulish,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- ossified,
- pat,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- self-opinionated,
- self-willed,
- stiff-necked,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
Words Related to obdurate
- determined,
- hell-bent,
- inexorable,
- persistent,
- relentless,
- resolved,
- set,
- single-minded,
- steadfast,
- stouthearted,
- tenacious,
- unflinching
- firm,
- hard-line,
- hard-shell
- (or hard-shelled),
- iron,
- severe,
- stern,
- strict
- bloody-minded
- [chiefly British],
- cantankerous
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