stubborn

About 3.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.

   People are pretty stubborn about their political beliefs, so why bother arguing?

2. adjective Physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
3. noun Stubbornness.
4. noun Ellipsis of stubborn disease (“a disease of citrus trees”).

Similar words

mulish obstinate refractory dogged pertinacious bullheaded hardheaded tenacious strong-willed strong-minded

Often followed by

and resistance as refusal to in man opposition will

Word family

stubborner stubbornest stubbornly stubbornness stubbornnesses