STUBBORN Synonyms

• very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

• impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

• habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

• stubbornly unyielding

• resistant to physical force or pressure

• having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation

• characterized by great determination

• devoting full strength and concentrated attention to

• determined or decided upon as by an authority

• strongly motivated to succeed

• stubbornly unyielding

• securely placed or fastened or set

• (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value

• fixed and unmoving

• incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"

• incapable of change

• not making concessions

• resistant to being bent

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

• obstinate and stupid

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• never-ceasing

• firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination

• characterized by quickness and firmness

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• good at remembering

• stubbornly unyielding

• sticking together

• a relation of direct opposition

• exact opposition

• a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false

• very opposed in nature or character or purpose

• of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false

• resistant to guidance or discipline

• in an opposing direction

• not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority

• unwilling to submit to authority

• lasting a long time

• patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble

• not submissive to authority

• disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

• stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

• retained; not shed

• never-ceasing

• continually recurring to the mind

• stubbornly unyielding