Word of the Day – Obdurate

Obdurate (adj)

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Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.

Late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘hardened in sin, impenitent’): from Latin obduratus, past participle of obdurare, from ob- ‘in opposition’ + durare ‘harden’ (from durus ‘hard’).

Example sentences

“I tried to argue the point but he was so obdurate he wouldn’t budge an inch.”