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obdurate a. 頑固的,執拗的,冷酷的 頑固的,執拗的,冷酷的 obdurate adj 1: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [ synonym: { cussed}, { obdurate}, { obstinate}, { unrepentant}] 2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; " his flinty gaze"; " the child' s misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [ synonym: { flinty}, { flint}, { granitic}, { obdurate}, { stony}] Obdurate \ Ob" du* rate\, v. t. To harden. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster]
Obdurate \ Ob" du* rate\, a. [ L. obduratus, p. p. of obdurare to harden; ob ( see Ob-) durare to harden, durus hard. See { Dure}.] 1. Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard- hearted; stubbornly wicked. [ 1913 Webster] The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. " Obdurate consonants." -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially by the older poets. [ 1913 Webster] There is no flesh in man' s obdurate heart. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible; unsusceptible. Usage: { Obdurate}, { Callous}, { Hardened}. Callous denotes a deadening of the sensibilities; as, a callous conscience. Hardened implies a general and settled disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and sympathy; as, hardened in vice. Obdurate implies an active resistance of the heart and will aganst the pleadings of compassion and humanity. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Ob" du* rate* ly}, adv. -- { Ob" du* rate* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 131 Moby Thesaurus words for " obdurate": adamant, asleep, benumbed, bony, brazen, callous, calloused, case- hardened, cement, cemental, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, concrete, conscienceless, corneous, dead, deadened, dense, diamondlike, dogged, dour, dull, dure, firm, flinthearted, flintlike, flinty, fundamentalist, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hard of heart, hard- bitten, hard- boiled, hard- nosed, hard- set, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hidebound, horny, immovable, impassible, impenitent, imperceptive, impercipient, impliable, indurated, inexorable, inflexible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insolent, inured, iron, iron- hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, lost to shame, marble, marblelike, mulish, muscle- bound, numb, numbed, obstinate, obtuse, orthodox, osseous, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, seared, shameless, solid, steellike, steely, stiff, stiff- necked, stonelike, stony, stonyhearted, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, thick- skinned, thick- witted, tough, unabject, unbending, unblushing, uncompassionate, uncompromising, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt, unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unperceptive, unrelenting, unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, unsympathetic, untouched, unyielding |
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