LekhoriLekhoriStubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish […] those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable […]
Not easily subdued or removed.
1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX, Now it happened that Kasturbai […] had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate.
Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.
He had the same pile of curly hair, but he was clean-shaven with a heavy, obstinate jowl.
Inherited from Middle English obstinat(e) (“obstinate, stubborn”), from Latin obstinātus, perfect passive participle of obstinō (“set one's mind firmly upon, resolve”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suf...
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