Naughty vs Obstinate - What's the difference?
naughty | obstinate | Synonyms |
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), First Folio, The Merchant of Venice :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* (rfdate) Udall:
(obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.
* (rfdate) American King James Bible, Jeremiah 24:2:
Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
Immoral]], sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, [[risqué, cheeky.
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",
Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
* 1927 , ,
Naughty is a synonym of obstinate.
As adjectives the difference between naughty and obstinate
is that naughty is while obstinate is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.naughty
English
Adjective
(er)- So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.
- Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts.
- One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
- Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.
- I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.
- If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!
Synonyms
* dirty * (mischievous) mischievousAntonyms
* niceDerived terms
* naughtily * naughtiness * naughty bitobstinate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish
- Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .