different between obdurate vs maverick

English

Etymology

Mid-15th century, from Latin obduratus (“hardened”), form of obd?r? (“harden”), from ob- (“against”) + d?r? (“harden, render hard”), from durus (“hard”). Compare durable, endure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bd????t/, /??bdj???t/, /??bd????t/, /-?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bd(j)???t/, /??bd(j)???t/, /-?t/
• Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially by the older poets.

Adjective

obdurate (comparative more obdurate, superlative most obdurate)

1. Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
   • 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book I:

     ... sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary ...

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, sc. 4:

     Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,

     Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 56–8

     ... round he throws his baleful eyes

     That witness'd huge affliction and dismay

     Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

   • 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:

     But custom maketh blind and obdurate

     The loftiest hearts.
2. (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
3. Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:

     I fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia's letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic.

Synonyms

• (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant

Derived terms

• obduracy

Related terms

• durable, duration
• endure, endurance, enduring

Translations

Verb

obdurate (third-person singular simple present obdurates, present participle obdurating, simple past and past participle obdurated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To harden; to obdure.

References

Anagrams

• taboured

Latin

Verb

obd?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of obd?r?

English

Etymology

From the surname of Texas lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. See Maverick.

Mr. Samuel Maverick was, incidentally, the grandfather of former congressman Maury Maverick, who coined the term gobbledygook.

The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?v??r-?k, IPA^(key): /?mæv???k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæv??ik/
• Hyphenation: ma?ve?rick

Adjective

maverick (comparative more maverick, superlative most maverick)

1. (of cattle) Unbranded.
2. Showing independence in thoughts or actions.

Translations

Noun

maverick (plural mavericks)

1. An unbranded range animal. [from 1860s]
2. (by extension) Anything dishonestly obtained.
3. (by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules. [from 1880s]

   Synonyms: heteroclite, individualist, lone gunman, nonconformist, rebel; see also Thesaurus:maverick

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4. (by extension) One who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices.
5. (military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person.
6. (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

Translations

Verb

maverick (third-person singular simple present mavericks, present participle mavericking, simple past and past participle mavericked)

1. (US) To take an unbranded range animal.
2. (by extension) To seize without a legal claim.

Translations

References

• Michael Weisenberg, compiler (1999) The Official Dictionary of Poker, Inglewood, Calif.: Mike Caro University of Poker, ?ISBN; Tom Dalzell (2012) , “maverick”, in The Slang of Poker, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, ?ISBN, page 155: “maverick / a queen and jack as the first two cards in a hold 'em hand.”

Further reading

• maverick (animal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• maverick (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia