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Obstinate vs Trackable - What's the difference?

obstinate | trackable |

As adjectives the difference between obstinate and trackable

is that obstinate is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent while trackable is able to be tracked, or worthy of being tracked.

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

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    trackable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be tracked, or worthy of being tracked.
  • *1867 , Charles Dickens, All the Year Round , v. 17, pg. 496:
  • *:The footsteps were trackable on the grass, but not on it, and were visible on the harrowed ground.
  • *1971 , Wernher von Braun, "Mariner 9 to Mars," Popular Science , November 1971, pg. 64:
  • *:The long flight to Mars and the even longer orbiting time of a precisely trackable spacecraft will enable scientists to refine the accuracy of our data bank on true distances across the solar system, the exact shape of the planet Mars, and possible anomalies in its gravitational field caused by mass concentrations (mascons).
  • *2007 , "Report Faults NASA on Equipment Losses," Bloomberg News'', in ''The New York Times , July 26, 2007:
  • *:Instead of tightening controls, it relaxed them, making $10,000 the minimum value for trackable items, instead of $5,000, the report said.