adjective
unwilling to submit (as to reason or control)
he had an obstinate determination to live as he pleased
Synonyms: bullheaded, closed-minded, deaf, hardheaded, headstrong, incompliant, intractable, intransigent, muleheaded, muley, mulish, pertinacious, perverse, pervicacious, pigheaded, refractory, self-willed, ||sot, stiff, stiff-necked, stubborn, tough, unpliable, unpliant, unyielding, willful, wrongheaded; compare unruly 1
Related Word: resistant, unsubmissive, withstanding; contrary, crabbed, recalcitrant, renitent; inexorable, inflexible, obdurate; opinionated; resolute, staunch, steadfast, unbudging
Contrasted words: acquiescent, complaisant, compliant; submissive, yielding; agreeable, cooperative, willing
Antonyms: pliable, pliant