Obdurate

Quick meaning: Obdurate is an adjective meaning Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

Meaning

Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

More Meanings

1. Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To harden; to obdure.
3. (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

Example Sentences

But custom maketh blind and obdurate The loftiest hearts.

Art thou obdurate, flintie, hard as ſteele? / Nay more then flint, for ſtone at raine relenteth: […]

[…] sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary […]

[…] round he throws his baleful eyes That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

Word Forms

• obdurates
• obdurating
• obdurated

Synonyms for obdurate

Depending on context, synonyms include hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obstinate, hardhearted, unrepentant, unregenerate, heartless, unregenerated.

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