Obstinate

Definitions: Obstinate

Obstinate

Adjective

1. Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.

2. Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior".

3. Persisting in a reactionary stand.

Verb

1. Persist stubbornly; "he obstinates himself against all rational arguments".

Date "obstinate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Obstinate \Ob"sti*nate\, adjective. [Latin expression obstinatus, past participle of obstinare to set about thing with firmness, to persist in; ob (see Ob-) a word from the root of stare to stand. See Stand, and compare to Destine.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Literature	Obstinate The name of an inhabitant of the City of Destruction, who advised Christian to return to his family, and not run on fools' errands. (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, pt. i.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Obstinate

Synonyms: contrary (adj), cussed (adj), obdurate (adj), perverse (adj), stubborn (adj), unregenerate (adj), unrepentant (adj), wayward (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Obstinacy	Verb: be obstinate; Adjective: stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief; have one's own way; (will); persist; (persevere) a; have the last word, insist on having the last word.
	Adjective: obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened; inflexible; (hard); balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert; unchangeable; inexorable; (determined); mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.
Resolution	Adjective: resolved; Verb: determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute; (brave); self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking; firm, iron, gritty, indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi; inflexible; (hard); obstinate; steady; (persevering) a.
Stability	Tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established; Verb: deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	In my opinion, you are the most obstinate young woman I have ever met. (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; writing credit: R.A. Dick; Philip Dunne)
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Domain	Title
Books	Duo for Obstinate Voices (Drama Series 3) (reference) Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers (Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies) (reference) Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart: A Biography (reference) Obstinate Air: Poems On Beating The Wind (reference) Obstinate Cymric : essays 1935-47 (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Intimate & Obstinate (reference) King Obstinate Praises the Lord (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Miss Carolina Sulivan - one of the obstinate daughters of America, 1776 / Matting(?) D(?) del.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Alexander Pope	An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Martial	You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Moliere	I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.
Oscar Wilde	My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
William James	Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Laws politic, ordained for external order and regiment amongst men, are never framed as they should be, unless presuming the will of man to be inwardly obstinate, rebellious, and averse from all obedience to the sacred laws of his nature; in a word, unless presuming man to be, in regard of his depraved mind, little better than a wild beast, they do accordingly provide, notwithstanding, so to frame his outward actions, that they be no hindrance unto the common good, for which societies are instituted. (Second Treatise of Government)
Communist Manifesto	1848	The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They insisted, but she was obstinate in her denial.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six and thirty moons past.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests.
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"Obstinate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.52% of the time. "Obstinate" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	84.52%	71	39,674
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.52%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	3.57%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.38%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	84	N/A

Expressions using "obstinate": be obstinate ♦ become obstinate ♦ get obstinate ♦ obstinate age ♦ obstinate as a mule ♦ obstinate mule ♦ obstinate person ♦ obstinate silence ♦ turn obstinate. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "obstinate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kokëfortë (balky, bullheaded, contrary, cussed, dogged, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, impracticable, intractable, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, pertinacious, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, stickler, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, urgent, wayward, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), i këmbëngulur. (various references)

Arabic		‏متعنت (adamant, inflexible, obdurate, opinionated, stubborn), ‏متصلب (adamant, hard line, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, obdurate, relentless, sclerotic, stick in the mud, stubborn, uncompromising, wilful, willful), ‏حرون (balky, rebellious, recalcitrant, restive, stubborn, sullen, unruly), ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏عضال (cancerous, hopeless, incurable, irremediable, stubborn). (various references)

Bulgarian		упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, utter, winning), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), инат (balky, baulky, cussed, mulish, obstinacy, rusty, stiff necked, stubborn, stubbornness). (various references)

Chinese		赌气 (Obstinacy, spite), 頑固 (stubborn), 頑 (mischievous, naughty, stubborn, stupid, to play), 紾 (crooked, twist a cord), 硜 , 硻 , 愎 (perverse), 剌 (cruel, scoop out, to slash). (various references)

Czech		zatvrzelý (hardened, impenitent, obdurate), umínìný (headstrong, hell-bent, obdurate, opinionated, pertinacious, refractory, self-opinionated, stubborn, wayward, wilful, willful), tvrdošíjný (dogged, pertinacious, restive, strenuous), neústupný (immovable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, pertinacious, refractory, stubborn, unyielding). (various references)

Dutch		koppig (stubborn), hardnekkig (stubborn), halsstarrig (stubborn). (various references)

Esperanto		obstina (stubborn), kontraŭstarema (intractable, refractory, stubborn). (various references)

Faeroese		treiskur (stubborn). (various references)

Farsi		کله شق (Bullheaded, Pertinacious, Restive, Stubborn), لجوج (Dogged, Dour, Headstrong, Intractable, Obdurate, Obstreperous, Pertinacious, Set, Stickler, Stubborn, Stuffy), سرسخت (Barnacle, Bullheaded, Diehard, Dogged, Dour, Headstrong, Intransigent, Inveterate, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Remorseless, Stark, Stubborn, Tenacious), خیره سر (Dour, Intractable, Pertinacious, Stubborn), خودرای (Absolute, Headstrong, Hidebound, Nonconformist, Opinionated, Peremptory, Wayward). (various references)

Finnish		itsepäinen (stubborn). (various references)

French		tenace, têtu, obstiné (obdurate). (various references)

German		hartnäckig (adamant, besetting, dogged, dour, importunate, importunately, insistent, intractable, inveterate, obdurate, obstinately, persistent, pertinacious, pertinaciously, pugnacious, pugnaciously, refractorily, refractory, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, tenaciously, tough, unregenerate, unrelenting, urgent), stur (bloody minded, cussed, dogged, dour, mulish, mulishly, obdurate, obstinately, pig-headed, rigid, stolid, stolidly, stubborn, uncooperative, wilful, wilily, willfully), starrsinnig (headily, heady, mulish, mulishly, pigheaded, stubborn), starrköpfig (bullheadedly, obdurate, stubborn), halsstarrig (obdurate, stubborn), eigensinnig (headstrong, opinionated, self willed, stubborn, wayward, waywardly, willful). (various references)

Greek		ισχυρογνώμονασ (obdurate), πεισματάρησ (bull-headed, contrary, cussed, dogged, mulish, ornery, spiteful, stubborn, wilful). (various references)

Hebrew		ממרה (contumacious, disobedient, rebellious, recalcitrant), מעוקש (stubborn), עקשן (adamant, bone head, contrary, dogged, headstrong, obdurate, pertinacious, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, stubborn), עקשני (intractable, mulish, recalcitrant, tough), עקש (crooked, hardheaded, intransigent, perverted, stubborn, untoward, wilful, willful), כבד לב (stubborn), גמחוני (capricious, stubborn), סרבני (balky, disobedient, recalcitrant). (various references)

Hungarian		makacs (bullet-headed, bull-headed, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, dogged, dour, froward, hard bitten, hard set, headstrong, hide-bound, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ornery, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff, stiff necked, stubborn, stuffed shirt, tough, wrong-headed), csökönyös (as stubborn as a mule, balky, bullet-headed, froward, hide-bound, indocile, mulish, obdurate, ornery, perverse, pigheaded, restive, rusty, wayward, wrong-headed). (various references)

Indonesian		keras kepala (bullheaded, opinionated, opinionative, recalcitrant, stubborn), didong, degil (headstrong), dakar (harheaded, stubborn), bandel (dogged, stubborn, undisciplined). (various references)

Italian		ostinato (determined, headstrong, obdurate, opinionated, persistent, pigheaded, self willed, single minded, stiff necked, stubborn, tough). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		難治 , 頭が固い (inflexible, thickheaded), 頑 , 狷介 (headstrong, stubborn), 意地尽く (stubborn), 横車 (forcing one's unreasonable demands, perverseness), したい気がする (feeling like doing, gently, God bless me!, Good heavens!, insistent, nicely, softly, to a tee), 倔強 (muscular, robust, sturdy), 屈強 (muscular, robust, sturdy), かさかさ鳴る (burning hotly, clattering, clink, cucumber, exactly, flare up, flying into a rage, frozen solid, I wonder, knocking, scared stiff, set rock hard, tick-tock, tightly, to crinkle, to grow numb with cold, to make a rustling sound, to rustle, with a click), 一徹 (inflexible, stubborn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なんじ (difficulty, what time?), なんち, しつこい (insistent), くっきょう (appropriate, excellent, handy, ideal, muscular, robust, sturdy, superb), かたくな, かちかち (frozen solid, knocking, scared stiff, set rock hard, tick-tock), いってつ (inflexible, stubborn), いじずく (stubborn), あたまがかたい (inflexible, thickheaded), よこぐるま (forcing one's unreasonable demands, perverseness), けんかい (headstrong, opinion, point of view, prefectural assembly, stubborn). (various references)

Korean		집요한. (various references)

Manx		sthurneishagh, raghtanagh (harsh, headstrong, indigent, rough, stubborn), raghtal (impatient, impetuous, rash, stubborn, violent), kione-lajeragh (arbitrary, contumacious, headstrong, obdurate, persistent, strong-willed), kione-eairkagh (insurgent), frassyrtagh, creoi-aignagh (stubborn), camlaagagh (crook, crook person, illicit, morally crooked, perverse, tortuous). (various references)

Pig Latin		obstinateay

Portuguese		teimoso (ambivalent, balky, die hard, Dogger, hard-mouthed, headstrong, mulish, opium, peevish, pertinacity, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, strongwilled, stubborn, tough, tumbler, uncompromising, unmanageable, unwilling, wayward, wilful, willful, wrong-headed), obstinado (ambivalent, balky, contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard-mouthed, headstrong, mulish, non-ductile, obdurate, peevish, pertinacious, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, stolid, stubborn, tenacious, unredeemed, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrong-headed). (various references)

Romanian		persistent (persistent, persistently, pertinacious, pertinaciously), de duratã (enduring, lasting, long-drawn), care nu cedeazã uşor, îndãrãtnic (cussed, indomitable, obdurate, perverse, pig-headed, restive, self willed, stubborn, stubbornly, wilful), încãpãţânat (awkward, contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard, headstrong, inveterate, mule, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, opinioned, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, royalist, self willed, stolid, stubborn, tough, unwilling, wilful). (various references)

Russian		упрямый (asinine, balky, baulky, bolshy, contrary, cross-grained, cussed, dogged, dour, froward, hardbitten, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, pertinacious, pig-headed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff necked, stiff-necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful). (various references)

Scottish		rag (a rag, a wrinkle, benumbed, disinclined, inflexible, rigid, stiff), dao, dalma (audacious, bold, forward), dùr (dour, dull, stubborn), dìorrasach, ceannlaidir. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tvrdoglav (crabby, cross-grained, die hard, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, intractable, mulish, opinionated, pigheaded, pig-headed, stiff necked, stubborn, willful), svojeglav (ornery, stubborn), jogunast (balky, baulky, capricious, difficult, refractory, thwart). (various references)

Spanish		obstinado (balky, bullheaded, dogged, hard-headed, obdurate, opinionated, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, self willed, steadfast, stout, stubborn), contumaz (contumacious, tough). (various references)

Swedish		egensinnig (opinionated, self willed, wayward, wilful, willful). (various references)

Turkish		müzmin (chronic, confirmed, inveterate, protracted), kronik (annals, chronic, chronical, Chronicle, inveterate), inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), dik kafalı (fractious, headstrong, heady, intractable, pigheaded, pig-headed, rigid, self-opinionated, spiky, stiff necked, strongheaded, unsubmissive), dik başlı (contrary, deaf, Froward, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, pig-headed, stubborn, wayward). (various references)

Turkmen		ketje (stubborn), kesir (stubborn), kejir (stubborn), keзjal (stubborn), keз (stubborn), hцзjet (stubborn), dikdьюdi. (various references)

Ukranian		упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), робити упертим (obdurate, obdure), робити завзятим, тривкий (constant), важковиліковний, настирливий (adhesive, aggressive, hard bitten, importunate, obtrusive), наполегливий (aggressive, emphatic, emphatical, importune, insistent, patient, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pressing, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, urgent). (various references)

Vietnamese		khó chữa, cứng đầu cứng cổ (hard-mouthed, indocile, intractable, mulish, obdurate, recalcitrant, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, self-willed, stiff-necked), bướng bỉnh (contrarious, contrary, contumacious, mulish, obdurate, rambunctious, refractory, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn). (various references)

Welsh		ystyfnig (stubborn), gwrthnysig (stubborn), cyndyn (stubborn), cildynnus (stubborn), cildyn (stubborn), anhydyn (intractable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cervicatus, contentiosa, contentiose, contentiosus, difficile, difficilem, difficiles, difficilia, obnixe, obstinato, pertinax, refractarius, tenaci, tenax. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	pertinace. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ginwskw egw oti sklhroV ei kai neuron sidhroun o trachloV sou kai to metwpon sou calkoun
Latin	405	Vulgate	Scivi enim quia durus es tu et nervus ferreus cervix tua et frons tua aerea
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	I kney forsothe for thou art hard, and an irene senewe thin haterel, and thi frount brasene.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
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Language	Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 4
Cebuano	Tungod kay ako nasayud nga ikaw masukihon, ug ang imong liog maoy usa ka ugat nga puthaw, ug ang imong kilay tumbaga:
Chinese	因為我素來知道你是頑梗的、你的頸項是鐵的、你的額是銅的、
Croatian	Jer znao sam da si tvrdokoran, da ti je šija žila gvozdena i èelo da ti je mjedeno.
Danish	Thi stivsindet er du, det ved jeg, din Nakke et Jernbånd, din Pande af Kobber.
Dutch	Omdat Ik wist, dat gij hard zijt, en uw nek een ijzeren zenuw is, en uw voorhoofd koper;
Finnish	Koska minä tiesin, että sinä olet paatunut, että sinun niskajänteesi on rautaa ja otsasi vaskea,
French	Sachant que tu es endurci, Que ton cou est une barre de fer, Et que tu as un front d`airain,
German	Denn ich weiß, daß du hart bist, und dein Nacken ist eine eiserne Ader, und deine Stirn ist ehern;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Aku tahu bahwa engkau tegar hati, keras kepala dan berkepala batu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tegal Aku tahu bagaimana tegar hatimu dan tengkukmupun urat besi dan dahimu dari pada tembaga adanya.
Italian	Poiché sapevo che tu sei ostinato e che la tua nuca è una sbarra di ferro e la tua fronte è di bronzo,
Korean	내 가 알 거 니 와 너 는 완 악 하 며 네 목 의 힘 줄 은 무 쇠 요 네 이 마 는 놋 이 라
Maori	I mohio hoki ahau he pakeke koe, he uaua rino hoki tou kaki, he parahi tou rae;
Norwegian	Fordi jeg visste at du er hård, og din nakke en jernsene, og din panne av kobber,
Portuguese	Porque eu sabia que és obstinado, que a tua cerviz é um nervo de ferro, e a tua testa de bronze.
Rumanian	Wtiind cq ewti kmpietrit, cq grumazul kyi este un drug de fier, wi cq ai o frunte de aramq,
Russian	с ЪОБМ, ЮФП ФЩ ХРПТЕО, Й ЮФП Ч ЫЕЕ ФЧПЕК ЦЙМЩ ЦЕМЕЪОЩЕ, Й МПВ ФЧПК--НЕДОЩК;
Swedish	Eftersom jag visste, att du var så styvsint, ja, att din nacksena var av järn och din panna av koppar,
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "obstinate": obstinately, obstinateness, obstinatenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obstinate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abstinate, Bostanzade, hobstinate, obsinate, obstenate, obstinat, obstinute, obstipate, obtimates, ostinati. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "obstinate" (pronounced Ä"bstunut)
5	-t u n u t	sultanate.
4	-u n u t	affectionate, baronet, bicarbonate, cabinet, compassionate, coordinate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, effeminate, extortionate, fortunate, geminate, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, innominate, inordinate, laminate, passionate, proportionate, unfortunate.
3	-n u t	alternate, Bennet, bluebonnet, bonnet, electromagnet, ferromagnet, garnet, granite, hornet, incarnate, magnate, magnet, minute, peanut, Pinot, planet, rennet, senate, Sennet, tenet, unit.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-n-o-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: botanies, botanise, botanist, niobates, obeisant.
	-2 letters: atonies, banties, basinet, bastion, batiste, battens, bistate, boniest, bonitas, instate, niobate, notates, obtains, satinet, station, toniest.
	-3 letters: absent, atones, basion, batons, batten, beanos, betons, bettas, binate, bionts, biotas, bitten, boites, bonita, bonsai, notate, obtain, obtest, sabine, sitten, sobeit, stotin, taints, tanist, tenias, teston, tineas, tisane, titans, tobies.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-n-o-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: abstention.
	+2 letters: abstentions, abstentious, antiobesity, geobotanist, hebetations, obstinately, obtainments, stenobathic, trabeations.
	+3 letters: botherations, geobotanists, jettisonable, notabilities, obstetrician.
	+4 letters: antiobesities, antiobscenity, debilitations, ethnobotanies, ethnobotanist, incontestable, incontestably, liberationist, obliterations, obstetricians, obstinateness, paleobotanist, perturbations.
	+5 letters: abortifacients, antimetabolics, autoantibodies, bacterizations, beatifications, countabilities, detonabilities, ethnobotanists, liberationists, paleobotanists, pentobarbitals, postliberation, reattributions, retinoblastoma, subcontinental.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.