In an age of polarized debates and dug-in opinions, obdurate feels more relevant than ever. It’s the word that captures our cultural stalemates: firm, unmovable, sometimes admirable and often ...

Today's word of the day is "obdurate," an adjective describing someone stubbornly resistant to persuasion or emotional appeals. Originating from the Latin "obdurare" meaning "to harden," it entered ...

English, generous as ever, offers a whole family of words for the immovable human spirit. There are words that sound like they wear iron boots. “Obdurate”, our word of the day, is one of them. It has ...