- stubbornness
- I(Roget's IV) n.Syn. obstinacy, doggedness, inflexibility, pertinacity, indomitability, perverseness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, adamancy, refractoriness, mulishness, sullenness, pigheadedness, stupidity, intractableness, bullheadedness, moroseness; see also determination 2 .Ant. flexibility*, amenability, good nature.II(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly inflexible: die-hardism, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, mtransigency, obduracy, obdurateness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness. See RESIST.
English dictionary for students. 2013.