Dictionary entry

Obstinate

Pronunciation: /ˈɒbstɪnət/

Pronunciation

/ˈɒbstɪnət/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ခေါင်းမာသော။

Definition

obstinate /'ɒbstÇnǝt/ adj ၁။ ( often derog ) ေခါင္းမာေသာ။ အေလွ်ာ့မေပးတတ္ေသာ။ The obstinate old man refused to go to hospital. ❍ He has an obstinate streak (ie Some of his behaviour is very obstinate). ၂။ ေပခံေနေသာ။ မေပ်ာက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ obstinate resistance ❍ an obstinate rash on his face ❍ an obstinate stain on the carpet. ❏ obstinately adv ေခါင္းမာမာျဖင့္။ ကတ္တီးကတ္ဖဲ့။ ideas to which he obstinately clung ❍ He obstinately refused to help.

Examples

  1. I now see that my obstinate refusal caused problems for everyone.
  2. This soap will remove the most obstinate stains.
  3. Jenny stuck obstinately to her original plan.