| 单词 | obdurate |
| 释义 | obdurate (once / 2891 pages) adj Obdurate is a formal word meaning stubborn. If you want to major in English, but your parents are obdurate that you should go premed, they might go so far as to threaten not to pay your tuition. This adjective descends from Latin obdurare "to harden." A near synonym is adamant, from Latin adamas "hard metal, diamond." So both of these synonyms derive from the quality of hardness being associated with a stubborn personality. WORD FAMILYobdurate: obduracy, obdurately+/obduracy: obduracies USAGE EXAMPLESThey were disciplined and obdurate in defence, confident in midfield and, when possible, enterprising in attack. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) These weekend warriors form the obdurate bedrock of Trump Nation: white, rural and working class. New York Times(Nov 04, 2016) The predestination here is to perennially reckon with unruly and obdurate feeling: people cannot help what moves them, what makes them feel alive. The New Yorker(Sep 09, 2016) 1adj stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing Syn cussed, obstinate, unrepentant unregenerate, unregenerated not reformed morally or spiritually 2adj showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart Syn flint, flinty, granitic, stony hardhearted, heartless lacking in feeling or pity or warmth |
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