Obstinate vs Stubbed - What's the difference?
obstinate | stubbed |
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 , ,
(stub)
Short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
Abounding in stubs; stubby.
* Robert Browning
Not delicate; hardy; rugged.
* Berkley
As adjectives the difference between obstinate and stubbed
is that obstinate is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent while stubbed is short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.As a verb stubbed is
(stub).obstinate
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 .
Synonyms
* bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious * (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable * See alsoDerived terms
* obstinately * obstinatenessExternal links
* * * ----stubbed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood.
- Stubbed , vulgar constitutions.