obdurate (redirected from obdurateness)

ob·du·rate  (bd-rt, -dy-)

adj.

1.

a. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: "obdurate conscience of the old sinner" (Sir Walter Scott).

b. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.

2. Not giving in to persuasion; intractable. See Synonyms at inflexible.

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[Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdrtus, past participle of obdrre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + drus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

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obdu·rate·ly adv.

obdu·rate·ness n.

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obdurate [ˈɒbdjʊrɪt]

adj

1. not easily moved by feelings or supplication; hardhearted

2. impervious to persuasion, esp to moral persuasion

[from Latin obdūrāre to make hard, from ob- (intensive) + dūrus hard; compare endure]

obduracy , obdurateness n

obdurately  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	obdurate - stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing cussed, obstinate, unrepentant unregenerated, unregenerate - not reformed morally or spiritually; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism"
	2.	obdurate - showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" flint, granitic, stony, flinty hardhearted, heartless - lacking in feeling or pity or warmth

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obdurate

adjective obstinate, firm, dogged, determined, fixed, iron, persistent, relentless, adamant, stubborn, intractable, inflexible, wilful, unrelenting, tenacious, inexorable, implacable, steadfast, unyielding, intransigent, immovable, headstrong, strong-minded, unbending, stiff-necked, unshakeable or unshakable, refractory, pig-headed, mulish, contumacious, pertinacious, indurate (rare), proof against persuasion, unimpressible The administration have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
yielding, flexible, compliant, amenable, submissive, malleable, pliant, tractable, biddable

Translations

obdurate [ˈɒbdjʊrɪt] ADJ (= stubborn) → obstinado, terco; (= unyielding) → inflexible, firme

obdurate [ˈɒbdjʊrət] adj

[person] → obstiné(e)
to remain obdurate → s'obstiner

[refusal] → obstiné

obdurate

adj (= stubborn) → hartnäckig; sinner → verstockt, halsstarrig; (= hard-hearted) → unnachgiebig, unerbittlich

obdurate [ˈɒbdjʊrɪt] (frm) adj (unyielding) → irremovibile; (stubborn) → caparbio/a, pervicace; (hard-hearted) → insensibile