Definition of Obstinate

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Obstinate

Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.

Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.

Related Definitions:

Adhering, An, As, Course, Easily, Fever, Implying, Not, Obstinate, Opinion, Or, Other, Persistent, Pertinacious, Purpose, Reason, Removed, Stubborn, Subdued, To, Yielding

Obstinate Quotations

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Jean de la Bruyere

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
Brian Ferneyhough

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton

Obstinate Translations

obstinate in Dutch is koppig, halsstarrig, hardnekkig
obstinate in Italian is ostinato
obstinate in Latin is pertinax, tenax
obstinate in Spanish is tozudo, obstinado, contumaz
obstinate in Swedish is egensinnig

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