Roget's Thesaurus

#606. Obstinacy

Nouns

obstinateness etc. adj.; obstinacy, tenacity; cussedness [U.S.]; perseverance etc. 604a; immovability; old school; inflexibility etc. (hardness) 323; obduracy, obduration; dogged resolution; resolution etc. 604; ruling passion; blind side. self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy, pervicacity; indocility. bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry, opiniativeness; fixed idea etc. (prejudgment) 481; fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania; opinionatedness, opinionativeness. mule; opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator; stickler, dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic.

Verbs

be obstinate etc. adj.; stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief; have one's own way etc. (will) 600; persist etc. (persevere) 604a; have the last word, insist on having the last word. die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out.

Adjectives

obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened; inflexible etc. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert etc. 172; unchangeable etc. 150; inexorable etc. (determined) 604; mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed. dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced, unaffected. willful, self-willed, perverse; resty, restive, restiff; pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete [Fr.]; contumacious; crossgrained. arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced etc. 481; creed-bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable; incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety etc. 608.

Adverbs

obstinately etc. adj..

Phrases

non possumus [Lat.]; no surrender; ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie [Fr.].