Qualities
Synonyms for obdurate
The synonym for obdurate recorded in this bank is intransigent, in the sense "stubbornly refusing to change one's mind or course". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for obdurate
- intransigentadjective, in the sense "stubbornly refusing to change one's mind or course"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for obdurate.
stubbornly refusing to change one's mind or course
Despite the mounting evidence, the committee chair remained obdurate about the original decision.
The true synonym
intransigent
Same sentence, swapped: Despite the mounting evidence, the committee chair remained intransigent about the original decision.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- confident
- grave
- formal
Where obdurate turns up in the game
obdurate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play obdurate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so obdurate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company obdurate keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. obdurate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.