Associations to the word «Obdurate»

Wiktionary

OBDURATE, adjective. Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
OBDURATE, adjective. (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

Dictionary definition

OBDURATE, adjective. Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.
OBDURATE, adjective. Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne