Obdurate vs Heady - What's the difference?
obdurate | heady | Related terms |
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
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(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
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intoxicating or stupefying
* The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
tending to upset the mind or senses
* We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
exhilarating
* The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
intellectual
* Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
rash or impetuous
* He made too heady promises, and when it came time, he was never able to fulfill them.
Obdurate is a related term of heady.
As adjectives the difference between obdurate and heady
is that obdurate is stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent while heady is intoxicating or stupefying.obdurate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
- Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
- But custom maketh blind and obdurate
- The loftiest hearts.
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