Difference between Stubborn and Cantankerous

STUBBORN vs CANTANKEROUS: ADJECTIVE

Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
Not responding to treatment
Persisting in a reactionary stand
Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute. : obstinate.
Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent.
Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort.
Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things
Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting.
Difficult to treat or deal with

Having a difficult and contrary disposition
Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable.
Difficult to handle.
Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.
Given to or marked by an ill-tempered nature, ill-tempered, cranky, surly, crabby.

To make stubborn; render stiff, unyielding, enduring, or the like.
Sturdy; stout; strong.
Synonyms and Refractory, Intractable, etc. (see obstinate); wilful, headstrong, unruly, inflexible, obdurate, ungovernable, indocile, mulish.
Harsh; rough; rude; coarse in texture or quality.
Difficult of treatment or management; hard to deal with or handle; not easily manipulated; refractory; tough; unyielding; stiff.
Persistently pursued or practised; obstinately maintained; not readily abandoned or relinquished.
Persistently obdurate; obtuse to reason or right; obstinately perverse.
Fixed or set in opinion or purpose; obstinately determined; inflexibly resolute; not to be moved by persuasion; unyielding.

Given to or marked by ill-tempered contradiction or opposition; contradictory; mulish; contentious; cross; waspish; ill-natured: as, “a cantankerous humour,”

Bolshy, Hard, Stroppy, Pertinacious, Dogged, Dour, Intractable, Hardheaded, Cantankerous, Bullheaded, Pigheaded, Unyielding, Mulish, Tenacious, Obstinate

Feisty, Acerbic, Crabby, Gruff, Grouchy, Grumpy, Curmudgeonly, Cranky, Irascible, Testy, Ill natured, Bloody minded, Stubborn, Ornery, Crotchety

Bolshy, Hard, Stroppy, Pertinacious, Dogged, Dour, Intractable, Hardheaded, Cantankerous, Bullheaded, Pigheaded, Unyielding, Mulish, Tenacious, Obstinate

Feisty, Acerbic, Crabby, Gruff, Grouchy, Grumpy, Curmudgeonly, Cranky, Irascible, Testy, Ill natured, Bloody minded, Stubborn, Ornery, Crotchety

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Research has shown that cantankerous patients live longer, so I resolved to be a cantankerous patient.