Synonyms of obstinate
- 1 Syllable
- set, hard, firm
- 2 Syllables
- willful, steely, headstrong, froward, waspy, sulky, grousing, peevish, balkier, steadfast, bullhead, chronic, tough-nut, wayward, sullen, seton, mulish, heady, balky, pouty, rightist, defiant, well-set, hard-core, steelier, ruber, mullish, dogged
- 3 Syllables
- hard-hearted, insistent, stiff-necked, unhearing, hardcore, crotchety, ornery, dogmatic, wrongheaded, relentless, restive, rebellious, hardline, convinced, undaring, adamant, self-willed, unpliable, bigoted, resolved, persistent, bulldogged, lingering, sourpussed, tenacious, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, unbending, unyielding, hardened, unflinching, contrary, wrong-headed, hardheaded, bullheaded, strong-willed, pigheaded, strong-minded, perverse
- 4 Syllables
- resolute, cantankerous, refractory, contumacious, determined, immovable, fanatical, pertinacious, singleminded, ever-present, unabating, obdurate, perseverant, doctrinaire, purposive, peremptory, unforgetful, indocile, intractable, intransigent, unwaivering, purposeful, close-minded, closed-minded, inflexible, unrelaxed, recalcitrant
- 5 Syllables
- inexorable, unadaptable, contradictory, indomitable, traditionalist, isolationist, undefeatable, negativistic, unalterable, uncompromising, uncontrollable, unmanageable, inalterable, adamantine, inveterate, conservative, opinionated, unpersuadable
- 6 Syllables
- opinionative, perseverative, traditionalistic