Usually means: Refusing to change opinion or course.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. stubborn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stubborn: Merriam-Webster
  3. stubborn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stubborn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stubborn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stubborn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stubborn, stubborn: Wordnik
  8. stubborn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stubborn: Wiktionary
  10. stubborn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stubborn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stubborn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stubborn: Dictionary.com
  14. stubborn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stubborn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stubborn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stubborn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stubborn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stubborn: Rhymezone
  20. stubborn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stubborn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stubborn: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stubborn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stubborn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. stubborn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stubborn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stubborn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stubborn: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. stubborn: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stubborn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stubbornly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
adjective:  Of materials: physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
noun:  (informal) Stubbornness.
noun:  Short for stubborn disease (“a disease of citrus trees”). [A disease of citrus trees characterized by stunted growth and misshapen fruit, caused by Spiroplasma citri.]

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