Definition
stubbornly refusing to change
In a sentence
“The obdurate clerk would not refund the ticket.”
Similar words
- stubborn
- unyielding
Related vocabulary
Why this word matters: obdurate appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.