Chapter Obscurity to Often of O by Soule's Synonymes

Obstinacy, n.

1. Stubbornness, doggedness, headiness, wilfulness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, inflexibility, pertinacity, persistency, firmness, resoluteness.

2. Fixedness, immovability, stubbornness, tenacity, tenaciousness.

Obstinate, a.

1. Stubborn, dogged, contumacious, unyielding, inflexible, perverse, mulish, opinionated, opinionative, wilful, heady, headstrong, refractory, unruly, cross-grained, intractable, obdurate, persistent, self-willed, immovable, firm, resolute, pertinacious.

2. Unyielding, immovable, stubborn, tenacious.

Obstreperous, a. Loud, noisy, clamorous, turbulent, tumultuous, boisterous, uproarious.

Obstruct, v. a.

1. Close, bar, stop, choke, blockade, barricade, block up, dam up.

2. Hinder, impede, oppose, stop, prevent.

3. Retard, interrupt, check, clog, embarrass, arrest.

Obstruction, n.

1. Hindrance, obstacle, impediment, barrier, check, difficulty, bar.

2. Check, hindrance, embarrassment, clog, interruption.

Obtain, v. a. Procure, get, acquire, achieve, gain, win, earn, secure, get possession of, attain.

Obtain, v. n. Hold good, subsist, continue in use, be received, become prevalent, be established.

Obtest, v. a.

1. Beseech, implore, conjure, supplicate, beg, invoke, entreat, pray, solicit, importune, conjure, adjure.

2. Beg for, supplicate.

Obtrude, v. a. Intrude, thrust in, press in, foist in, worm in, interfere.

Obtrusive, a. Intrusive, forward, officious, inclined to obtrude.