Stolid vs Obdurate - What's the difference?
stolid | obdurate |
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
* 1857 , ", verse 2.
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* 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
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(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
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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)- 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!
- They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
- 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)- The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
- Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
- But custom maketh blind and obdurate
- The loftiest hearts.
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