Obstinacy, n.
- 1. Stubbornness, doggedness, headiness, wilfulness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, inflexibility, pertinacity,
persistency, firmness, resoluteness.
- 2. Fixedness, immovability, stubbornness, tenacity, tenaciousness.
Obstinate, a.
- 1. Stubborn, dogged, contumacious, unyielding, inflexible, perverse, mulish, opinionated, opinionative,
wilful, heady, headstrong, refractory, unruly, cross-grained, intractable, obdurate, persistent, self-willed,
immovable, firm, resolute, pertinacious.
- 2. Unyielding, immovable, stubborn, tenacious.
Obstreperous, a. Loud, noisy, clamorous, turbulent, tumultuous, boisterous, uproarious.
Obstruct, v. a.
- 1. Close, bar, stop, choke, blockade, barricade, block up, dam up.
- 2. Hinder, impede, oppose, stop, prevent.
- 3. Retard, interrupt, check, clog, embarrass, arrest.
Obstruction, n.
- 1. Hindrance, obstacle, impediment, barrier, check, difficulty, bar.
- 2. Check, hindrance, embarrassment, clog, interruption.
Obtain, v. a. Procure, get, acquire, achieve, gain, win, earn, secure, get possession of, attain.
Obtain, v. n. Hold good, subsist, continue in use, be received, become prevalent, be established.
Obtest, v. a.
- 1. Beseech, implore, conjure, supplicate, beg, invoke, entreat, pray, solicit, importune, conjure, adjure.
- 2. Beg for, supplicate.
Obtrude, v. a. Intrude, thrust in, press in, foist in, worm in, interfere.
Obtrusive, a. Intrusive, forward, officious, inclined to obtrude.