stubborn
Pronunciation: /ˈstʌbɚn/
The English word “stubborn” has 3 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
- Physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
noun
Etymology
From Middle English stiborne, stibourne, stoburn, stoburne, styburne, stiborn, of uncertain origin; one hypothesis is that it may be from Old English *stybbor, from Old English stybb (“a stump, stub”) + -or (adjective-formation suffix, as in bitor, whence English bitter).
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