Thesaurus / obdurate
other words for obdurate
- adamant
- bullhead
- callous
- cold fish
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- heartless
- immovable
- implacable
- indurate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron
- mean
- mulish
- obstinate
- perverse
- relentless
- rigid
- set in stone
- stiff-necked
- thick-skinned
- tough
- tough nut to crack
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
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Wotan cannot but be obdurate; he pronounces sentence on Siegmund and goes off in a storming rage.
RICHARD WAGNERJOHN F. RUNCIMAN
For a long while his supplications made no impression on the obdurate African.
THE FUNNY PHILOSOPHERSGEORGE YELLOTT
She had made an earnest effort to avoid the journey, but Anne of Austria was obdurate and cruel.
LOUIS XIV., MAKERS OF HISTORY SERIESJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
For this marriage, after playing the obdurate and irascible godfather so long, he was suddenly transformed into a fairy godmother.
THE STONES OF PARIS IN HISTORY AND LETTERS, VOLUME II (OF 2)BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN
The governor was obdurate in his decision to stick in the race.
She wrote to us, excusing her action, and I would gladly have forgiven her; but her father was obdurate.
THE TELEGRAPH BOYHORATIO ALGER, JR.
But the heart of the North shook off its despair, listened to no timid counsels; it was growing fierce and obdurate.
Look at this obdurate woman; she says that I am not just because I am severe.
I.N.R.I.PETER ROSEGGER
The sheriff of the county was obdurate, deaf to all intents and purposes.
THE ORDEALCHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
Nothing could move the obdurate heart of the tyrant who held them.
SAGES AND HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONL. CARROLL JUDSON
WORDS RELATED TO OBDURATE
- apathetic
- blind to
- careless
- case-hardened
- cold
- cold-blooded
- deaf to
- hard
- hard-bitten
- hard-boiled
- hardened
- hardhearted
- heartless
- impassive
- impenitent
- indifferent
- indurated
- inflexible
- insensate
- insensible
- insensitive
- insentient
- inured
- obdurate
- soulless
- spiritless
- stiff
- stony
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- torpid
- tough
- toughened
- unaffected
- unbending
- uncaring
- uncompassionate
- unconcerned
- unfeeling
- unimpressionable
- unresponsive
- unsusceptible
- unsympathetic
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