Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stubborn
IPA transcription: [st'ʌbɚn]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate
    Meaning: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
Usage examples
  • "'Pretty stubborn.'
  • Continuous and stubborn disregard
  • She really thought he was too stubborn.
  • "Oi'll not answer," was the stubborn return.
  • Mere dull, stubborn prejudice; bigotry, if you like.
  • A stubborn scholar must be corrected till he is subdued.
  • The opposition there, though showing signs of relenting, was still stubborn.
  • "The stubborn beast-flesh grows day by day back again." Then I came round to the Hyena-swine.
  • The larger the county-seat, the larger the non-church-going population and the more stubborn the fight.
  • For stubborn matter turned docile before the stress of this returning life, taught somewhere to be plastic.