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[i]The [u]obdurate[/u] right-hander, a constant thorn in Australia's side during the Ashes, accumulated his second ODI century with quiet efficiency from 126 deliveries, only six of which rattled the boundary ropes. [/i] [url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/9372193.stm ]BBC article... [/url]
Had no idea what 'obdurate' meant, totally new word to me (native english speaker)... so, do you know what it means?
Stubborn
TJ
brakes - MemberTJ
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I know what it means
Obdurate sounds like a version of obstinate so, simply by association, I would imagine it means something similar.
intransigent
well, from TheFreeDictionary.com
1.
a. 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
Guessing the journo was going with option 2 in this instance! Still, a weird word to use, one of those occasions where you get the feeling someone was just trying to be clever I reckon...
obstreperous
The word "ingenous" was in a newspaper article i was reading yesterday and i didn't know what that meant. I still haven't got round to looking it up actually. Anyone...?
EDIT: Obviously i read it wrong (or it was a terrible typo), because it doesn't seem to be a real word at all.
Obdurate - Bloody-minded.
Ingenuous - the opposite of disingenuous 😉
Jeremy beadle.
Ingenuous, as drain says, is the opposite of disingenuous (which is odd, it should be the opposite of genuous :-)); it means sincere. I thought it was a fairly mainstream word?
Obdurate I've never come across before. In context from the OP, I'd have guessed at something like "persistent" or, well, 'a constant thorn in the side.' In isolation, it looks a lot like obstinate.
I tried to look up "gullible" in the dictionary but it isn't listed.
BigJohn - Member
I tried to look up "gullible" in the dictionary but it isn't listed
yes it is - something to do with being open to seagulling IIRC
I tried to look up "gullible" in the dictionary but it isn't listed.
I have my doubts so I thought I'd check if 'gullible' isn't in my dictionary, but it is, the definition reads 'Someone unlikey to read this entry if they'd been told it wasn't here - if you [i]are [/i]reading this then refer instead to the entry for 'skeptical'"
to knock something out of its proposed timescale? i haven't looked up yet, i bet i'm wrong!
I always though we should embrace the use of the word 'gruntled' in its sense of being the opposite of 'disgruntled' - as in, I'm feeling particularly gruntled [happy] today.
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I'm also a big fan of clement weather. Never seems to get a mention though.
Il Fait Froyd? 😛