Word Meanings - STIFF-BACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Obstinate. J. H. Newman.

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• OBSTINATE
  a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob + a word from the 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.