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Stolid vs Obdurate - What's the difference?

stolid | obdurate |

As adjectives the difference between stolid and obdurate

is that stolid is having or revealing little emotion or sensibility while obdurate is stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

stolid

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
  • * 1857 , ", verse 2.
  • Light laughs the breeze
    In her Castle above them —
    Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,
    Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence —
    Ah, what sagacity perished here!
  • * 1898 , ,
  • They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
  • * 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
  • With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.

    obdurate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
  • * Hooker
  • The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
  • * 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
  • But custom maketh blind and obdurate
    The loftiest hearts.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.}}
  • (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
  • Synonyms

    * (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant

    Derived terms

    * obduracy

    References

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