| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Cold and forbidding: austere, bleak, dour, hard, harsh, severe, stark. See ATTITUDE, HOT. 2. Shockingly repellent: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre. See BEAUTIFUL. 3. Firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will: adamant, adamantine, brassbound, die-hard, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding. Idioms: stubborn as a mule (or ox) . See RESIST.
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