Difference between Obstinate and Obdurate

OBSTINATE vs OBDURATE: ADJECTIVE

Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed
Difficult to manage, control, or treat.
Characterized by such adherence.
Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
Resistant to guidance or discipline
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
Persisting in a reactionary stand

Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
Not changing in response to argument or other influence; obstinate or intractable.
Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent.
Hardened against feeling; hardhearted.
Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
Physically hardened, toughened.
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

Synonyms Obstinate, Stubborn, Intractable, Refractory, Contumacious, pertinacious, headstrong, unyielding, dogged, wilful, persistent, immovable, inflexible, firm, resolute. The first five words now imply a strong and vicious or disobedient refusal to yield, a resolute or unmanageable standing upon one's own will. Stubborn is strictly negative: a stubborn child will not listen to advice or commands, but perhaps has no definite purpose of his own. Obstinate is active: the obstinate man will carry out his intention in spite of advice, remonstrance, appeals, or force. The last three of the italicized words imply disobedience to proper authority. Intractable, literally not to be drawn, handled, or governed, is negative; so is refractory: both suggest sullenness or perverseness; refractory is more appropriate where resistance is physical: hence the extension of the word to apply to metals. Contumacious combines pride, haughtiness, or insolence with disobedience; in law it means wilfully disobedient to the orders of a court.
Not easily controlled or removed; unyielding to treatment: as, an obstinate cough; an obstinate headache.
Springing from or indicating obstinacy.
Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course of action; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty; headstrong.

Unbending, unsusceptible, insensible.
Synonyms Obdurate, Callous, Hardened. These words all retain the original meaning of physical hardening, although it is obsolescent with obdurate. In the moral signification, the figure is most felt in the use of callous, which indicates sensibilities to right and wrong deadened by hard treatment, like callous flesh. Hardened is less definite, it being not always clear whether the person is viewed as made hard by circumstances or as having hardened himself against better influences and proper claims. Obdurate is the strongest, and implies most of determination and active resistance. See obstinate.
Inflexible; stiff; harsh.
Hard-hearted; inexorable; unyielding; stubborn.
Hardened, especially against moral influences; wickedly resisting.
To harden; confirm in resistance; make obdurate.

Ornery, Headstrong, Recalcitrant, Intransigent, Unregenerated, Contrary, Perverse, Cussed, Wayward, Unreconstructed, Unrepentant, Unregenerate, Disobedient, Obdurate, Stubborn

Resolute, Sadducee, Adamant, Persistent, Dogged, Stubborn, Unregenerated, Cussed, Heartless, Hardhearted, Stony, Unrepentant, Unregenerate, Flinty, Obstinate

Ornery, Headstrong, Recalcitrant, Intransigent, Unregenerated, Contrary, Perverse, Cussed, Wayward, Unreconstructed, Unrepentant, Unregenerate, Disobedient, Obdurate, Stubborn

Resolute, Sadducee, Adamant, Persistent, Dogged, Stubborn, Unregenerated, Cussed, Heartless, Hardhearted, Stony, Unrepentant, Unregenerate, Flinty, Obstinate

In December, a heavy, obstinate downpour lasted for days.
The Professor sat down and his mouth grew obstinate.
Pertinaciously, Obstinate, prvfrac te, pcrtinaciter, obstinato animo, cum pertinacia.
The most obstinate farmers were persecuted and imprisoned.
He could be obstinate and lacking in diplomacy.
Market sentiment is often subjective, biased, and obstinate.
Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests.
SYN: Willful, froward, perverse, refractory, disobedient, obstinate, stubborn.
Fond of his woe, and obstinate in grief.
He said he had managed to cope with obstinate generals and he would manage to cope with obstinate SS generals too.

The South African Government remained obdurate and the Indian position became worse if anything at all.
We have here an obdurate ruling sector whose adamant commitment to a particular worldview knows no boundaries.
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And when President Mbeki proved obdurate, they took to the courts.
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But the Colonel was obdurate in his insistence upon silence.
Broderick remonstrated indignantly at this butchery, but Prince was obdurate.