obdurate

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore O words

stubbornly refusing to change one's mind or course of action

In a sentence

Obdurate in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing obdurate in a sentence.

The obdurate senator refused to compromise even as his allies abandoned the bill.

Synonyms

stubbornintransigentunyielding

Antonyms

yieldingflexibletractable

Keep going

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to make something deliberately unclear or confusing

the act of making something deliberately unclear or confusing

tending to make something deliberately obscure, confusing, or unclear

Common questions

Obdurate (adjective) means stubbornly refusing to change one's mind or course of action

Here is obdurate used in an example sentence: "The obdurate senator refused to compromise even as his allies abandoned the bill."

Common synonyms for obdurate include stubborn, intransigent, unyielding.

Antonyms of obdurate include yielding, flexible, tractable.

Obdurate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

Vocabulary sticks when you meet it in real sentences. Practise these words inside text completion and sentence equivalence questions.