Untoward vs Obstinate - What's the difference?
untoward | obstinate |
Unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous.
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Unruly, troublesome.
Unseemly, improper.
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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.
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As adjectives the difference between untoward and obstinate
is that untoward is unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous while obstinate is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.untoward
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* adverse, disadvantageous, inconvenient, unfavorable, unfortunate * difficult, fractious, stubborn, troublesome, uncontrollable, unruly * immodest, improper, unseemlyAnagrams
* *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 .