1a. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: “obdurate conscience of the old sinner” (Sir Walter Scott). b. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.2. Not giving in to persuasion; intractable. See synonyms at inflexible.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdrtus, past participle of obdrre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob– + drus, hard; see deru- in Appendix I.
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