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What is the difference between intransigent and obstinate?

intransigent | obstinate |

As adjectives the difference between intransigent and obstinate

is that intransigent is unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; irreconcilable; stubborn while obstinate is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.

intransigent

English

Alternative forms

* intransigeant

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; irreconcilable; stubborn.
    • Don't waste your time trying to change his mind, he's completely intransigent .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * intransigence * intransigency * intransigently

    References

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    obstinate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
  • * 1686 , , "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",
    • From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish
  • Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
  • * 1927 , ,
    • Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .

    Synonyms

    * bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious * (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable * See also

    Derived terms

    * obstinately * obstinateness

    Related terms

    * obstinacy

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