adjective
definition
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
definition
Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
Examples of obstinate in a Sentence
He was incapable, obstinate and perfectly selfish.
His obstinate resistance came to an end.
He showed an obstinate refusal to admit that things were bad.
William, however, was too proud and too obstinate to lend himself to such a course.
Kiera's mate hadn't counted on an obstinate bride.
Charlie, a delightful little gray mouse is shy, impulsive and sometimes obstinate.
When the Czechs refused this request the Germans responded with more obstinate obstruction.
He was an obstinate man, clinging to a guitar twanging Christianity in the face of public opinion.
Burgos offered an obstinate defence.
No one was ever so ready for argument and, I must add, so obstinate and lovable.
They were quite obstinate in their opinions and sneered at my "naïvety" in accepting your suggestions.
What is left will be an obstinate remainder of difficulties, for which there is no solution or only too many.
He was naughty and obstinate.
After an obstinate fight the Scots were overpowered and defeated with great loss.
He refused to come to any understanding with the government, although offers were made to him by Bonaparte, who admired his skill and his obstinate energy.
The firing drew other troops towards the critical point, and very shortly the wood of Maslowed became the scene of one of the most obstinate conflicts in military history.
Cassander, Antipater's son, hastened from Peloponnesus, and, after an obstinate siege, compelled the surrender of Pydna, where she had taken refuge.
Such proposals could not be entertained by Great Britain; and as the sultan remained obstinate the British ambassador on the 3rd of May presented a note to the Porte requiring compliance with the British proposals within ten days.
But fortunately for us both, I am a little stronger, and quite as obstinate when I set out.
A loving, even tempered breed that is quick to learn but can be obstinate if not trained from the beginning, a Portuguese Water Dog can be the dog for you.
Unfortunately, nursemaid's elbow commonly occurs when an obstinate child is forcibly pulled along or lifted by the forearm by a parent or older sibling.
Father Enfantin held fast by his ideal to the end, but he had renounced the hope of giving it a local habitation and a name in the degenerate obstinate world.
The great numerical superiority of the Federals enabled Sherman to press back the Confederates without a pitched battle, but the severity of the skirmishing may be judged from the casualties of the two armies (Sherman's about 26,000 men, Johnston's over io,000), and the obstinate steadiness of Johnston by the fact that his opponent hardly progressed more than one mile a day.
On the 27th of July the place surrendered after an obstinate defence; during the siege Wolfe had had charge of a most important section of the attack, and on his lines the fiercest fighting took place.
Thus the Prussian infantry encountered unusually obstinate resistance and the troops engaged rapidly slipped from all superior control.
An obstinate resistance was offered by the city to Lautrec de Foix in 1528; and his entrance within its walls was followed by the massacre, it is said, of 18,000 of its citizens.
But instead of support, Casimir encountered obstinate obstruction at every point.
But the Poles proving obstinate, and Austria simultaneously displaying a disquieting interest in the welfare of the Republic, Prussia, on 1 I Pol.
He came boldly to the front in the middle of December as the champion of Saxony; and, as Russia and Prussia were still obstinate, Metternich and Castlereagh demanded the admission of France to the secret council.
In 1577 he was committed to the care of Cox of Ely with strict rules for his treatment; and the bishop (1578) could find no fault with him except that "he was a gentle person but in the popish religion too, too obstinate."
While a student he was not unaccustomed " to make good cheer and be merry," but at the same time he was a punctilious observer of the minutest rites of his faith and "as obstinate a Papist as any in England."
But the Swedish fleet escaped, and the annihilation of the Danish fleet by the combined navies of Sweden and Holland, after an obstinate fight between Fehmarn and Laaland at the end of September, exhausted the military resources of Denmark and compelled Christian to accept the mediation of France and the United Provinces; and peace was finally signed at BrOmsebro on the 8th of February 1645.
In 1714 it was taken after an obstinate resistance by the duke of Berwick in the interests of Philip V., and at the close of the war was reluctantly reconciled to the Bourbon dynasty.
It belonged to Venice until 1797, when it came under Austrian dominion; it revolted in 1848, and again in 1849, being the only Lombard town to rally to Charles Albert in the latter year, but was taken after ten days' obstinate street fighting by the Austrians under Haynau.
After an obstinate resistance the town was taken by the besiegers on the 24th of June 1535, and in January 1536 Bockholdt and some of his more prominent followers, after being cruelly tortured, were executed in the market-place.
Sigismund's obstinate insistence upon his right to the Swedish crown was the one impediment to the conclusion of a war which the Polish Diet heartily detested and very successfully impeded.
And in chapter 48 they do n't listen to him, but are obstinate, stiff-necked people who deal treacherously and rebel.
Her obstinate behavior was considered perverse and unacceptable in the stern environment.
You have to be committed to make the startup successful, and at times you must demonstrate an obstinate, even pig-headed determination to make your business successful.
What a pain, and I'm lucky I didn't remove my thumb along with the obstinate seal.
Taurus is notorious for his obstinate nature.
It was feared that the heresy, if suffered to make headway, would spread like wildfire among the ignorant Russian peasantry, and Archbishop Nikon was sent to Athos to threaten the recalcitrant brethren with severe temporal and eternal penalties should they remain obstinate.
At the meeting between the king and the citizens to arrange for the defence of the capital, Nansen urged the necessity of an obstinate defence.
Philo, who tells how any suggestion of appeal by the Jews to Tiberius enraged him, sums up their view of Pilate in Agrippa's words, as a man " inflexible, merciless, obstinate."
A formidable agitation sprang up in France, which only served to make the king more obstinate.
English army to the relic.f of the capital, retired when he found he was too late, and an obstinate battle, in which the gallant general lost his life, had to be fought before the troops could secure their embarcation at Corunna.
In 1204 Hubert distinguished himself by a long and obstinate defence of Chinon, at a time when nearly the whole of Poitou had passed into French hands.
He behaved with extraordinary skill, displaying in the heat of the conflict all the abilities of an experienced conspirator, knowing, "like the snail, how to draw in his horns as soon as he met with an obstacle" (Thiers), but supple, resourceful and unscrupulous as to the choice of men and means in his obstinate struggle for power.
Despite all the protests and negotiations of Laynez, the pope remained obstinate; and there was nothing but to submit.
He is described at this period as intellectual, upright and absolutely trustworthy, but obstinate and self-opinionated to the highest degree, arguing with antiquaries about coins, with equerries about horses, and with foreigners about their own countries, always certain that he was right and they wrong, whatever the discussion might be.