Definitions for obdurate

obdurate ob·du·rate

Spelling: [ob-doo-rit, -dyoo-]
IPA: /ˈɒb dʊ rɪt, -dyʊ-/

Obdurate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 400 anagrams from letters in obdurate (abdeortu).

Definitions for obdurate

adjective

  1. unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
  2. stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent:

Origin of obdurate

1400-50; late Middle English obdurat Latin obdūrātus (past participle of obdūrāre to harden), equivalent to ob- ob- + dūr(us) hard + -ātus Examples for obdurate

Then she pleaded, finding him obdurate: "If you won't go for me, then go for your father."

It happened because of massive and obdurate resistance to reasonable change.

But, when she found Jane obdurate, Mrs. Snow might have surrendered.

"obdurate, indeed, is the case that will not yield to such medicine as mine," she said.

But thanks to Providence, all hearts were not so obdurate as Rita's.

She does not want to see me, thinks Abbot, and that looks as though Viva were obdurate.

Mrs Varden was obdurate, and being so was not to be overcome by mortal agency.

"We'll see whether it'll be an improvement first," said the obdurate O'Reirdon.

"She told me she 'd not see anybody, sir," was the obdurate reply.

Yet instead of scaling back their political ambitions in the face of an obdurate reality, they are escalating them.

Word Value for obdurate
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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