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[OB-stah-nit] 
1. stubbornly and often unreasonably adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; pertinacious; obdurate: "I've talked to Dawn countless times about the merits of public transportation, but she remains obstinate, despite the hours she spends everyday stuck in traffic."
2. difficult to manage, control or overcome
3. difficult to treat, alleviate, or cure: "I've had this obstinate headache all week."
adverb form: obstinately
noun form: obstinateness
Origin:
Approximately 1387; from Middle English, 'obstinat'; borrowed from Latin, 'obstinatus,' past participle of 'obstinare': to persist or stand stubbornly ('ob': by + 'stinare,' from 'stanare,' related to 'stare': to stand). In action:
"This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated."
Report by Personnel Officer at I.C.I., rejecting Mrs. Thatcher for a job in 1948
"The opening act was 'Gravity Kills', which toils in the subgenre once known as cyberpunk. The lead singer held his microphone six inches from his face and screamed at it as if it were an obstinate child."
Kelefa Sanneh. "Pop Review: Letting Forgiveness Prevail In Spite of All the Screaming," The New York Times (February 5, 2002).
"A candidate once called his opponent 'a willful, obstinate, unsavory, obnoxious, pusillanimous, pestilential, pernicious, and perversable liar' without pausing for breath, and even his enemies removed their hats."
Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State (The WPA Guide to Mississippi), (1938).
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