From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2008]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] [en], from [en], [perfect] [passive] [participle] of [la] (see [en]),
from [la] + *[la], from [la]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [äb'stənət] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion , purpose , or course , usually with implied unreasonableness ; persistent .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1686 | translator=w:Charles Cotton | author= 吴语: Michel de Montaigne | title=That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended
|passage=From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in
times of war, to punish [...] those who are OBSTINATE to defend a place that
by the rules of war is not tenable [...]}}
1. * [passage= [...] the junior Osborne was quite as OBSTINATE as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments]
2. [en] Not easily subdue d or remove d.
3. * 1925-29 , [Mahadev Desai] (translator), [Mahatma Gandhi] , _[The Story of My Experiments with Truth]_ , Part IV, Basa Sunda: The Story of My Experiments with Truth/Part IV/Domestic Satyagraha ,
4. *: Now it happened that Kasturbai [...] had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be OBSTINATE .
5. [en] Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.
6. * [passage=He had the same pile of curly hair, but he was clean-shaven with a heavy, OBSTINATE jowl.]
**** Synonyms
- [stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , see also Thesaurus:obstinate
- [not easily subdued] [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
[en]
**** Translations
[adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually unreasonably]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh] , [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [colloquial]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang] , [ang] , [ang]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [colloquial] , [ru] [colloquial, obstinate and foolish] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[(of inanimate things) not easily subdued or removed]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Latin
*** Etymology 1
**** Pronunciation
- [obstinātē]
**** Adverb
[obstinātē]
1. firmly , inflexibly , resolutely , obstinately
*** Etymology 2
**** Pronunciation
- [obstināte]
**** Participle
[la]
1. [la]
*** References
- [R:L&S]
- [R:Elementary Lewis]
- [R:Gaffiot]
** Spanish
*** Verb
[es]
1. [obstinar]