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obdurate    
a. 顽固的,执拗的,冷酷的

顽固的,执拗的,冷酷的

obdurate
adj 1: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [synonym: {cussed},
{obdurate}, {obstinate}, {unrepentant}]
2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty
gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate
heart" [synonym: {flinty}, {flint}, {granitic}, {obdurate},
{stony}]

Obdurate \Ob"du*rate\, v. t.
To harden. [Obs.]
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Obdurate \Ob"du*rate\, a. [L. obduratus, p. p. of obdurare to
harden; ob (see Ob-) durare to harden, durus hard. See
{Dure}.]
1. Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying
influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
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The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate
against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
--Hooker.
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Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,
Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
--Shak.
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2. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. "Obdurate
consonants." --Swift.
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Note: Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially
by the older poets.
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There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
--Cowper.
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Syn: Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn;
obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible;
unsusceptible.

Usage: {Obdurate}, {Callous}, {Hardened}. Callous denotes a
deadening of the sensibilities; as, a callous
conscience. Hardened implies a general and settled
disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and
sympathy; as, hardened in vice. Obdurate implies an
active resistance of the heart and will aganst the
pleadings of compassion and humanity.
[1913 Webster] -- {Ob"du*rate*ly}, adv. --
{Ob"du*rate*ness}, n.
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131 Moby Thesaurus words for "obdurate":
adamant, asleep, benumbed, bony, brazen, callous, calloused,
case-hardened, cement, cemental, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded,
coldhearted, concrete, conscienceless, corneous, dead, deadened,
dense, diamondlike, dogged, dour, dull, dure, firm, flinthearted,
flintlike, flinty, fundamentalist, granitelike, granitic, hard,
hard as nails, hard of heart, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hard-nosed,
hard-set, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hidebound, horny,
immovable, impassible, impenitent, imperceptive, impercipient,
impliable, indurated, inexorable, inflexible, insensate,
insensible, insensitive, insentient, insolent, inured, iron,
iron-hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, lapideous,
lithoid, lithoidal, lost to shame, marble, marblelike, mulish,
muscle-bound, numb, numbed, obstinate, obtuse, orthodox, osseous,
procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless,
resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous,
rockbound, rocklike, rocky, seared, shameless, solid, steellike,
steely, stiff, stiff-necked, stonelike, stony, stonyhearted,
straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, thick-skinned, thick-witted,
tough, unabject, unbending, unblushing, uncompassionate,
uncompromising, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt,
unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unperceptive, unrelenting,
unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, unsympathetic,
untouched, unyielding

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