Unpersuadable

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not persuadable; who cannot be persuaded or convinced.

    "I wish, for both our sakes, my dear unpersuadable girl, that the decision of this point lay with me. But why, when you know it does not, why should you thus perplex and urge me?"

  2. 2
    Of which one cannot be persuaded.

    "He did not boast, but it naturally betrayed itself, that he had persuaded his aunt where his uncle could do nothing, and on her laughing and noticing it, he owned that he believed (excepting one or two points) he could with time persuade her to any thing. […] The unpersuadable point, which he did not mention, Emma guessed to be good behaviour to his father."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not susceptible to persuasion wordnet

Synonyms

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unsusceptibleblindcautiousclose mindedclose-mindedclosed

Example

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"I wish, for both our sakes, my dear unpersuadable girl, that the decision of this point lay with me. But why, when you know it does not, why should you thus perplex and urge me?"

Etymology

From un- + persuadable.

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