obstinate

adjective

  1. 1

    resistant to guidance or discipline

    Mary Mary quite contrary

    an obstinate child with a violent temper

  2. 2

    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

  3. 3

    tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

verb

  1. 1

    persist stubbornly

    he obstinates himself against all rational arguments

Synonyms

Also useful for “obstinate”:Unscrambler