Stubborn crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 letters

When “Stubborn” is part of a crossword, these answers have historically matched that clue in various published puzzles, making them practical to test in your own solving process.

Answers:

Synonyms and Definitions

OBSTINATE

• Synonyms: contrary, cussed, obdurate, perverse, unregenerate, unrepentant, wayward

MULISH

• Synonyms: hardheaded

TENACIOUS

• Synonyms: coherent, dogged, dour, long, persistent, pertinacious, recollective, retentive, unyielding

OBDURATE

• Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obstinate, stony

DOGGED

• Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, tenacious, track, trail

WILLFUL

• Synonyms: froward, headstrong, self-willed, wilful

SET

• Synonyms: adjust, arrange, band, bent, circle, coif, coiffe, coiffure, congeal, correct, countersink, curing, define, determine, determined, dictated, do, dress, exercise set, fit, fix, fixed, fructify, gear up, go down, go under, hardened, hardening, jell, laid, lay, lay out, limit, localise, localize, located, lot, mark, place, placed, plant, pose, position, prepare, primed, put, readiness, ready, rig, rigid, set up, seth, sic, situated, solidification, solidifying, specify, stage set, typeset

STONE

• Synonyms: endocarp, gem, gemstone, lapidate, pit, rock

DOUR

• Synonyms: dark, forbidding, glowering, glum, grim, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

INVETERATE

• Synonyms: chronic

HEADSTRONG

• Synonyms: willful

STIFF

• Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, buckram, cadaver, clay, cockeyed, corpse, crocked, firm, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potent, remains, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, starchy, steadfast, steady, strong, tight, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, wet

HARDHEADED

• Synonyms: hard-nosed, mulish, practical, pragmatic

ORNERY

• Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety
• Definition: Possessing a challenging and opposing character

OPINIONATED

• Synonyms: opinionative, self-opinionated

REFRACTORY

• Synonyms: fractious, furnace lining, recalcitrant

BALKY

• Synonyms: balking

ADAMANT

• Synonyms: adamantine, diamond, inexorable, intransigent