cussedness [U.S.]; perseverance &c 604.1; immovability; old school;
inflexibility &c (hardness) 323; obduracy, obduration†; dogged
resolution; resolution &c 604; ruling passion; blind side.
self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy†, pervicacity†;
indocility†.
bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry†, opiniativeness; fixed
idea &c (prejudgment) 481; fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation,
monomania; opinionatedness opinionativeness†.
mule; opinionist†, opinionatist†, opiniator†, opinator†; stickler,
dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic.
V. be obstinate &c adj.; stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of
facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief; have one's
own way &c (will) 600; persist &c (persevere) 604.1; have the last
word, insist on having the last word.
die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out.
Adj. obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened; inflexible
&c (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert &c
172; unchangeable &c 150; inexorable &c (determined) 604; mulish,
obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.
dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.
willful, self-willed, perverse; resty†, restive, restiff†;
pervicacious†, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete
[Fr.]; contumacious; crossgrained†.
arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced &c 481; creed-
bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff
hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious,
impracticable, inpersuasible†; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable†;
incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety &c 608.
Adv. obstinately &c adj..
Phr. non possumus [Lat.]; no surrender; ils n'ont rien appris ne rien
oublie [Fr.].