English-Portuguese translations for stubborn

• teimoso
  O Conselho revela-se aqui bastante teimoso. The Council proved to be quite stubborn.
  Nesta matéria, o senhor é tão teimoso como um marinheiro pescador. You are as stubborn on this issue as a deep-sea fisherman.
  Talvez esteja a ser teimoso, mas estas são, sinceramente, as minhas convicções. Maybe I am being stubborn but this is what I sincerely believe.
• cabeça-dura
• obstinado
  Contudo, a OMS e o ECDC mantiveram um silêncio obstinado a esse respeito. However, the WHO and the ECDC have maintained a stubborn silence.
  O bilateralismo obstinado não é o caminho para o progresso. Stubborn bilateralism is not the way forward.
  Mas o curso obstinado do governo sempre acaba por destruir esses esforços.Yet the stubborn line taken by the government keeps destroying these efforts.
• persistente
  Essa presença - uma persistente presença dos tempos passados - pesa muito no nosso trabalho. Their presence - the stubborn presence of the centuries - hangs heavy on our work.
  Os receios da discriminação não são mitos na Irlanda do Norte, são factos persistentes com os quais é difícil lidar. Fears of discrimination are not myths in Northern Ireland, they are stubborn facts.
  Subsistem, contudo, alguns problemas tão persistentes que, provavelmente, não verão solução no futuro imediato.There are, however, a number of problems that are so stubborn that they are unlikely to be resolved in the immediate future.

Definition of stubborn

• Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something
• Of materials: physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked
• Stubbornness
• A disease of citrus trees characterized by stunted growth and misshapen fruit, caused by

Examples

• He is pretty stubborn about his political beliefs, so why bother arguing?
• Blood can make a very stubborn stain on fabrics if not washed properly

Related words

• stubbornness
• stubbornly
• stubborn as a mule