Diehard

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 one who stubbornly adheres to traditional and outdated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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diehard
       n : one who adheres to traditional views [syn: {traditionalist}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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