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Obdurate vs Untouched - What's the difference?

obdurate | untouched | Synonyms |

Obdurate is a synonym of untouched.


As adjectives the difference between obdurate and untouched

is that obdurate is stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent while untouched is remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged.

obdurate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
  • * Hooker
    • The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
  • * 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
    • But custom maketh blind and obdurate
    The loftiest hearts.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.}}
  • (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

    • Synonyms

    * (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant

    Derived terms

    * obduracy

    Related terms

    * durable, duration * endure, endurance, enduring

    References

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    untouched

    English

    Alternative forms

    * untoucht (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal
    • , volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
  • Not eaten.
  • Not influenced, affected or swayed.
  • Not having come in contact.
  • Not talked about.