stubborn

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Refusing to change your mind or do what others want.

   He is too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.

2. 2
   adj

   Difficult to remove, deal with, or get rid of.

   There is a stubborn stain on the carpet that won't come out.

From Middle English stiborne, stibourne, stoburn, stoburne, styburne, stiborn, of uncertain origin; one hypothesis is that it may be from Old English *stybbor, from Old English stybb (“a stump, stub”) + -or (adjective-formation suffix, as in bitor, whence English bitter).

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