stubbornly
/stˈʌbɚnli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times."
- "It is the outpost which the devil and the flesh most stubbornly maintain against the assaults of grace; and until it be subdued, and its barriers levelled with the very earth, there is more hope of a fool than of the sinner."
- "The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond."
- "Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962."
Etymology
Etymology tree English stubborn Middle English -ly English -ly English stubbornly From stubborn + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more stubbornly (comparative)
most stubbornly (superlative)