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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stubborn
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stubborn stain (=one that is hard to remove)
▪ Lighter fuel can be used to remove more stubborn stains.
a stubborn/obstinate refusal (=a refusal even when others think this is unreasonable)
▪ Her stubborn refusal to admit the truth was trying his patience.
stubborn resistance
▪ The stubborn resistance of the people remains an inspiring example.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ And Clare's just as stubborn and just as silly.
▪ Each wore a frown as stubborn as the other's.
▪ This can be a helpful approach in discussion - some one may regard you as stubborn, whereas you see yourself as determined.
most
▪ You are the most stubborn, irritating child I have ever come across!
▪ These appear to be the most stubborn obstacles to our believing that the inscription reproduces essentially the words of Themistokles.
▪ Those last few pounds can prove the most stubborn, but the F-Plan will help.
▪ He was at his most stubborn, and gave the predictable answers to the obvious questions.
▪ He frowned. ` Steve Waugh's the most stubborn batsman in world cricket.
so
▪ Why the devil was she so stubborn?
▪ It amazed me, to tell you the truth, that you could be so stubborn.
▪ Edward, why is your country so resistant, why are you so stubborn?
▪ He's an old donkey, so stubborn.
very
▪ He can be very stubborn at times.
▪ Only a very stubborn man could have believed that reason would prevail in a case such as this one.
▪ He can be very stubborn about his principles.
▪ In this way she seems to be a very stubborn character.
▪ He was so very stubborn and single-minded when he went after something he wanted.
■ NOUN
determination
▪ As the family kept vigil, the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother.
▪ There was no cheering on the part of the men, but a stubborn determination to obey orders and do their duty.
refusal
▪ Perhaps it was her stubborn refusal to see her family broken up that made Mrs Breen appealing to Farnham.
resistance
▪ However, Wainwright offered stubborn resistance, and responded with some hard hitting from the baseline to level the score at 6-6.
▪ What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation?
▪ After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance, the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939.
streak
▪ Luckily, I had that stubborn streak to give me the determination to do it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ stubborn weeds
▪ a stubborn old man
▪ Despite stubborn opposition, the President managed to raise interest rates.
▪ I've got a very stubborn streak and I discovered that I couldn't bear people telling me what I could and couldn't eat.
▪ I told him it was a bad idea, but Dave's so stubborn that he just never listens.
▪ Jean-Paul can be as a stubborn as a mule.
▪ The oil companies face stubborn resistance from environmentalists.
▪ We need to do something about Craig, but he's so stubborn I just know he wouldn't listen if we tried to talk to him.
▪ Your father is so stubborn - he won't listen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A man of great personal charm, he was yet stubborn and pugnacious towards those with whom he disagreed.
▪ Can't you get that into your stubborn skull, Mr Hebden?
▪ I was stubborn, so was she.
▪ If the nearer accepts it she is branded as a liar at worst and as stubborn at best.
▪ She was a stubborn, loyal Aries, the best kind of friend to have.
▪ She was behaving like an ostrich about Old Red - and a stubborn ostrich at that!
▪ Tax policy would be ruled by stubborn one-third minorities, many among them cruising for policy payoffs to drop their opposition.
▪ To their left was the long forbidding wood with its tangle of trees and stubborn defenders.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stubborn

Stubborn \Stub"born\,

  1. [OE. stoburn, stiborn; probably fr. AS. styb a stu

  2. See Stub.] Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. ``Bow, stubborn knees.''
    --Shak. ``Stubborn attention and more than common application.''
    --Locke. ``Stubborn Stoics.''
    --Swift.

    And I was young and full of ragerie [wantonness] Stubborn and strong, and jolly as a pie.
    --Chaucer.

    These heretics be so stiff and stubborn.
    --Sir T. More.

    Your stubborn usage of the pope.
    --Shak.

    Syn: Obstinate; inflexible; obdurate; headstrong; stiff; hardy; firm; refractory; intractable; rugged; contumacious; heady.

    Usage: Stubborn, Obstinate. Obstinate is used of either active or passive persistence in one's views or conduct, in spite of the wishes of others. Stubborn describes an extreme degree of passive obstinacy. -- Stub"born*ly, adv. -- Stub"born*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stubborn

late 14c., of uncertain origin. Earliest form is stiborn. OED, Liberman doubt any connection with stub (n.). Related: Stubbornly; stubbornness.

Wiktionary
stubborn

a. Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting.

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WordNet
stubborn

  1. adj. tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield [ant: docile]

  2. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne" [syn: refractory]

  3. difficult to treat or deal with; "stubborn rust stains"; "a stubborn case of acne"

  4. persisting in a reactionary stand [syn: obstinate, unregenerate]

Wikipedia
Stubborn

Stubborn means steadfastly refusing to change opinions or position.

Stubborn has been used as a name for the following:

  • HMS Stubborn (P238), an S class submarine
  • Little Miss Stubborn, a character in the Little Miss series of books
  • Mr. Stubborn, a character on the children's television show The Mr. Men Show
  • Louis X of France, a King of France called "the Stubborn"
  • Citrus stubborn disease, a plant disease affecting species in the genus Citrus
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Usage examples of "stubborn".

Kaiku had always been stubborn and wilful, but to be an Aberrant was surely indefensible?

On the 28th Clements was still advancing, and contracting still further the space which was occupied by our stubborn foe.

Aye, and Alienor could certainly benefit from a match with a man nigh as stubborn as herself.

And at my window hang you forth: devising Some monstrous crime, which I, in capital letters, Will eat into thy flesh with aquafortis, And burning corsives, on this stubborn breast.

She is a heroine out of a Barbara Pym novel: bookish, dependable, magnanimously stubborn, and no doubt beneath it all profoundly disappointed.

George was growing very stubborn, and although he might be persuaded to change his mind about certain matters by Lord Bute and his mother, Charlotte had never had the power to persuade him.

So stubborn was its consistency, that in conveying my heavily-weighted hand to my mouth, the connecting links almost raised the calabash from the mats on which it had been placed.

He was about to burst, Cesse was, telling me yet again how proud he is of his son, his brilliant, stubborn, wonderful son who would put himself into danger, make a hero of himself just to spite his papa.

Leader Dou Ling, a stubborn grime covered bastard who acted as if he were in command of the Nung Yahtsu.

She was a quiet, gray, dovelike woman, of an outer softness that masked a stubborn inner core.

I can cope with the aggressive man, the cunning man, the subtle man, the duplicitous man, the stubborn man, the stupid man.

Christa Kirklan is as stubborn as her Earthling heritage and as unpredictable as a cosmic storm.

Journal of Hadriax el Fex The dans have proven more resilient, more stubborn, than we believed they would.

There is a swimming pool and a fishpond behind the house, but these bodies of water are a stubborn, frothing, seething mess of algae in which monitor lizards float, their small faces hiding their large, hanging bodies, and in which there are scorpions and frogs in staggering numbers.

The land belongs to Gyer, but Jason de Burgh and his people are so stubborn over the matter that they refuse to give way.