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 .

Adjective

(en adjective)

given to troublemaking

irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome

* {{quote-news, year=2014

, date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. }}

* 1847 , ,

…in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.