diehard

See also: die-hard and die hard

English

Alternative forms

• die-hard

Etymology

From the verb phrase die hard.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

diehard (comparative more diehard, superlative most diehard)

1. Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.
2. Fanatically opposing progress or reform.
3. Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.

   For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinate

Translations

unreasonably resisting change

• Finnish: patavanhoillinen
• French: inflexible (fr), inébranlable (fr), irréductible (fr), entier (fr)
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• Serbo-Croatian: tvrdoglav (sh) m

fanatically opposing progress

• Finnish: patavanhoillinen
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• French: réactionnaire (fr), réac (fr), conservateur (fr)
• Serbo-Croatian: tvrdoglav (sh)

thorough of in one's beliefs

• Finnish: pesunkestävä (fi)
• French: intégriste (fr), fanatique (fr), illuminé (fr), déterminé (fr), déter (fr)
• German: eingefleischt (de), hartgesotten (de)
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• Serbo-Croatian: tvrdoglav (sh) m
• Spanish: empedernido (es)

Noun

diehard (plural diehards)

1. A person with such an attitude.

Anagrams

• dihedra