die-hard

4 definitions found

die-hard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  diehard \die"hard`\ (d[imac]"h[aum]rd`), n.
     1. one who stubbornly adheres to traditional and outdated
        views.
  
     Syn: traditionalist.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. one who vigorously defends an apparently hopeless
        position, a lost cause, etc.
        [PJC]

  diehard \die"hard`\ (d[imac]"h[aum]rd`), a.
     stubbornly and vigorously resisting in the face of seemingly
     hopeless odds; as, diehard opposition.
  
     Syn: never-say-die. [PJC]

die-hard - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  die-hard
      adj 1: tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an
             inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed
             republican" [syn: die-hard(a), rock-ribbed]

die-hard - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "diehard":
     Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, ass, bigot, bitter-ender, brawler,
     bullethead, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, defendant,
     disputant, dissentient, dissident, dogmatist, donkey,
     extreme right-winger, fanatic, fogy, fundamentalist, hard hat,
     hardnose, imperialist, intransigeant, intransigent, irreconcilable,
     last-ditcher, laudator temporis acti, litigant, maverick,
     monarchist, mossback, mule, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator,
     objector, obstructionist, obstructive, old, old fogy, old school,
     opposer, oppositionist, perverse fool, pighead, plaintiff,
     positivist, protester, purist, quarreler, radical right,
     reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, resister, right,
     right wing, right-winger, rightist, royalist, scrapper,
     social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, stick-in-the-mud,
     stickler, ultraconservative, white, wrangler