stubborn

Definition

  • adjective: refusing to change your ideas or to stop doing something
  • adjective: unreasonably or perversely unyielding
  • synonyms: mulish, refractory, obdurate

Examples

  • He's '(as) stubborn as a mule'. [=he's very/extremely stubborn]

  • She 'has a stubborn streak'. [=she is often stubborn]

  • She's wrong, but she's too 'stubborn' to admit it.

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