Obstinately Synonyms and Antonyms

In a stubborn unregenerate manner
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. stubbornly
  2. pig-headedly
  3. obdurately
  4. mulishly
  5. cussedly
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. doggedly
  2. tenaciously
  3. pertinaciously
  4. stiff-neckedly
  5. pigheadedly
  6. bullheadedly
  7. like a bull
  8. persistently
  9. unwaveringly
  10. determinedly
  11. unyieldingly
  12. fixedly
  13. resolutely
  14. unreasonably
  15. unreasoningly
  16. perversely
  17. stolidly
  18. resistantly
  19. intractably
  20. inflexibly
  21. headstrongly
  22. willfully
  23. recalcitrantly
  24. steadfastly
  25. staunchly
  26. unflinchingly
  27. resolvedly
  28. opinionatedly
  29. immovably
  30. unimpressibly
  31. unconquerably
  32. contumaciously
  33. indomitably
  34. unrelentingly
  35. unamenably
  36. stubbornly as a mule
  37. like a jackass
Antonyms:
  1. obediently
  2. docilely
  3. graciously

Obstinately Sentence Examples

  • The city held out obstinately against the pretensions of the stadtholders, and in 1650 opened the dykes in order to prevent William II.

  • The abbey was dissolved (12th of July 1559), and within a year Feckenham was sent by Archbishop Parker to the Tower (loth of May 1560), according to Jewel, "for having obstinately refused attendance on public worship and everywhere declaiming and railing against that religion which we now profess" (Parker Society, first series, p. 79).

  • The Home Office letter obstinately refuses to delete the effect leaving only " purpose " as proposed by the noble baroness, Lady Miller.

  • But Flavilla obstinately insisted on her scaled and fish-tailed costume.

  • You do not resist cold and hunger, the winds and the waves, thus obstinately; you quietly submit to a thousand similar necessities.

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