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obdurateadjective having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelingsthe obdurate refusal of the crotchety old man to let the neighborhood kids retrieve their stray ball from his backyard affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, merciless, pachydermatous, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, slash-and-burn, soulless, stony(also stoney), stonyhearted, take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing, unsympathetic boorish, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, uncaring, unfriendly, unloving, unthinkinggrim, hard-bitten, harsh, heavy-handed, ironfisted, ironhanded, jackbooted, knock-down, drag-out(or knock-down-and-drag-out), oppressive, rough, rough-and-tumble, severe, sledgehammer, stern, tough, ungentleabusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, virulentbarbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, evil-minded, savage, viciousaustere, cold, frosty charitable, compassionate, humane, kindhearted, kindly, merciful, sensitive, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted benevolent, benignant, gentle, kindclement, indulgent, lenient, mildcordial, friendly, good-natured, good-tempered, gracioustolerant, understandingaffectionate, fond, loving sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionan obdurate farmer who could never be convinced to try a different method of fertilization adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful) anal-retentive, obsessivewayward, wrongheadeddetermined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinchingfirm, hard-line, hard-shell(or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, stricthidebound, narrow-minded, rigidbloody-minded(chiefly British), cantankerouscontrary, cussedcontumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrulydefiant, insurgent, mutinousindomitable, invincible, unconquerableconfirmed, inveterate, unregeneratedemanding, exacting deaf to reason acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractableaccepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willinggovernable, manageable, reasonable, temperateslavish, subservient inflexible, obdurate, adamant mean unwilling to alter a predetermined course or purpose.inflexible implies rigid adherence or even slavish conformity to principle.inflexible in their demands obdurate stresses hardness of heart and insensitivity to appeals for mercy or the influence of divine grace.obdurate in his refusal to grant clemency adamant implies utter immovability in the face of all temptation or entreaty.adamant that the work should continue in the 15th century |