Crossword-Solution: OBDURATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Obdurate | a. | Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. |
| Obdurate | a. | Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. |
| Obdurate | v. t. | To harden. |
We have 46 clues for the answer “OBDURATE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| refusing, stubbornly, to change one's opinion or course of action | 1 answer |
| Shameless or stubborn | 1 answer |
| Hardened in feelings | 1 answer |
| Impervious to appeal. | 2 answers |
| Stubborn as a mule | 2 answers |
| Deaf to entreaty. | 2 answers |
| Bull headed | 3 answers |
| Unwilling to budge | 7 answers |
| Imperviousness | 10 answers |
| Hard-hearted | 13 answers |
| Unappeasable | 14 answers |
| Muley | 18 answers |
| priggish | 23 answers |
| balky | 23 answers |
| Oafish | 25 answers |
| Doughty | 26 answers |
| Stony. | 27 answers |
| unsympathetic | 40 answers |
| Bull-headed | 44 answers |
| Iron | 49 answers |
| froward | 53 answers |
| ungovernable | 54 answers |
| hardened | 54 answers |
| uncooperative | 57 answers |
| Pig-headed | 60 answers |
| contumacious | 60 answers |
| prudish | 61 answers |
| Intractable | 62 answers |
| Recalcitrant | 63 answers |
| Incorrigible | 65 answers |
| obstreperous | 65 answers |
| Obdurate | 66 answers |
| perverse | 66 answers |
| Head-strong? | 67 answers |
| fractious | 68 answers |
| mulish | 69 answers |
| Harden | 71 answers |
| Unbending | 72 answers |
| Brave | 77 answers |
| dogged | 77 answers |
| contrary | 79 answers |
| Inflexible | 81 answers |
| Stubborn | 85 answers |
| firm | 92 answers |
| Unyield-ing | 96 answers |
| Hard | 107 answers |
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Sentences with OBDURATE (5)
Late the next afternoon Tarzan and his Waziri returned with the first load of “belongings,” and when the party saw the ancient ingots of virgin gold they swarmed upon the ape-man with a thousand questions; but he was smilingly obdurate to their appeals—he declined to give them the slightest clew as to the source of his immense treasure.
This upper robe concealed what at first view seemed rather inconsistent with its form, a shirt, namely, of linked mail, with sleeves and gloves of the same, curiously plaited and interwoven, as flexible to the body as those which are now wrought in the stocking-loom, out of less obdurate materials.
Sometimes he was upon the verge of tears, and again he was promising his listener either fabulous rewards or condign punishment; but the other was obdurate.
She was obdurate, and at last the lad appeared to acquiesce in his mother’s decision that the ape must be returned to Africa and the boy to school, from which he had been absent on vacation.
Lloyd’s plantation, and, on allowance day, place himself in the deep, pine woods, and there let him, in silence, thoughtfully analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul, and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because “there is no flesh in his obdurate heart.” The remark is not unfrequently made, that slaves are the most contended and happy laborers in the world.
Quotes with OBDURATE (3)
A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)
... I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do. I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeb…
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1953–2010).