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Obstinate vs Noncompliant - What's the difference?

obstinate | noncompliant |

As adjectives the difference between obstinate and noncompliant

is that obstinate is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent while noncompliant is not compliant; rebellious.

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

    External links

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    noncompliant

    English

    Alternative forms

    *non-compliant

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not compliant; rebellious
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 22, Laya Frischer, Further Adventures in Tot Control, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=It was directed toward a program, "Tuesday's Child," which endorses systematic, unquestioning rejection by parents of the program-created noncompliant behaviors in their eighteen-month- to five-year-old children. }}