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adj. Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.

adj. Fanatically opposing progress or reform.

adj. Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.

n. A person with such an attitude.

n. one who stubbornly adheres to traditional and outdated views.

n. one who vigorously defends an apparently hopeless position, a lost cause, etc.

adj. stubbornly and vigorously resisting in the face of seemingly hopeless odds.

v. continue to exist

adj. tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated

n. one who adheres to traditional views

"Certain diehard leftists, on the other hand, insist that had he lived Orwell would have remained faithful to socialism, not to capitalist democracy."

inflexible   

continue    conservative    conservativist   

carry over    reverberate    rip van winkle   

traditionalist    never-say-die    obstinate   

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