N. obstinateness,
obstinacy,
tenacity, cussedness,
perseverance,
immovability, old school,
inflexibility,
obduracy,
obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side,
self-will,
contumacy,
perversity, pervicacy|,
pervicacity,
indocility,
bigotry,
intolerance,
dogmatism, opiniatry|,
opiniativeness, fixed idea,
fanaticism,
zealotry,
infatuation,
monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness,
mule, opinionist|,
opinionatist, opiniator|, opinator|,
stickler,
dogmatist,
bigot,
zealot,
enthusiast,
fanatic V. be obstinate,
stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of facts,
opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief, have one's own way,
persist, 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,
balky, immovable,
unshakable, not to be moved,
inert, unchangeable,
inexorable,
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,
contumacious,
crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive,
bigoted,
prejudiced, 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 Phr. non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie
N. sullenness,
morosity,
spleen,
churlishness,
irascibility,
moodiness,
perversity,
obstinacy, torvity|,
spinosity,
crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor,
sulks,
dudgeon,
mumps, dumps,
doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks,
scowl, grouch,
huff Adj. sullen,
sulky,
ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed,
grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor,
knaggy,
torvous,
crusty,
crabbed,
sour, sour as a crab, surly,
moody,
spleenish, spleenly,
splenetic,
cankered, cross,
crossgrained,
perverse,
wayward,
humorsome, restiff, restive,
cantankerous, intractable,
exceptious,
sinistrous, deaf to reason,
unaccommodating,
rusty,
froward, cussed,
dogged,
grumpy,
glum,
grim,
grum,
morose,
frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts,
scowling,
glowering,
growling, grouchy,
peevish 