Diehard

Quick meaning: Diehard is an adjective meaning (idiomatic) Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.

Meaning

(idiomatic) Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.

More Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Fanatically opposing progress or reform.
2. (idiomatic) Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.
3. (idiomatic) Strongly or fanatically determined or devoted.
4. (idiomatic) A person with such an attitude.

Example Sentences

For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.

The libertarian right of the Consservative Party, many of them diehard Europhobes, privately referred to the health minister and his advisers as "the Gestapo" for their faith in enforced lockdowns.

I should like my Scottish correspondent to see recent statements by leading officers of certain American railways which both have been among the most extreme diehards for steam, and also have developed the most powerful and outstanding steam locomotive designs—[…].

Word Forms

• die-hard
• diehards

Synonyms for diehard

Depending on context, synonyms include traditionalist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include traditionalist, stubborn, obstinate, stubbornness, persistent, intransigence.

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