OBSTINATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obstinately mean? 

• OBSTINATELY (adverb)
  The adverb OBSTINATELY has 1 sense:

1. in a stubborn unregenerate manner

  Familiarity information: OBSTINATELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSTINATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a stubborn unregenerate manner

Synonyms:

cussedly; mulishly; obdurately; obstinately; pig-headedly; stubbornly

Context example:

she remained stubbornly in the same position

Pertainym:

obstinate (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing)

 Context examples 

He would not explain himself, but remained obstinately seated on his bed all the time I remained with him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to her and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Well, now that I had found the boat, you would have thought I had had enough of truantry for once, but in the meantime I had taken another notion and become so obstinately fond of it that I would have carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain Smollett himself.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)