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diehard

UK/ˈdaɪ.hɑːd//ˈdaɪ.hɑɹd/

diehard adjective: unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.

Adjective

diehard (comparative more diehard, superlative most diehard)

  1. (idiomatic) Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.
  2. (idiomatic) Fanatically opposing progress or reform.
  3. (idiomatic) Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.
    • For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.
    • The libertarian right of the Consservative Party, many of them diehard Europhobes, privately referred to the health minister and his advisers as "the Gestapo" for their faith in enforced lockdowns.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 644
  4. (idiomatic) Strongly or fanatically determined or devoted.

Noun

diehard (plural diehards)

  1. (idiomatic) A person with such an attitude.
    • I should like my Scottish correspondent to see recent statements by leading officers of certain American railways which both have been among the most extreme diehards for steam, and also have developed the most powerful and outstanding steam locomotive designs—[…].1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in RailwAy Magazine, page 13

Proper noun capitalized: Diehard

Diehard

  1. A locality in the Glen Innes Severn council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

diehard meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

diehard in Tamil

துவளா வினைஞன்

diehard in Malayalam

reactionary, hard-line, ultra-conservative
അഭിപ്രായം മാറ്റുകയില്ലാത്ത, ചൊട്ടയിലെ ശീലം ചുടലവരെ പുലർത്തുന്ന, മുരട്ടുശീലമുള്ള, പിടിവാശിക്കാരനായ, നയപരമായ കാര്യങ്ങളിൽ വിട്ടുവീഴ്ചയില്ലാത്ത, പിന്തിരിപ്പനായ

Forms of diehard

Adjective
comparativemore diehard
superlativemost diehard
alternative formdie-hard
Noun
pluraldiehards

Origin of diehard

Deverbal from die hard.

Words formed from diehard

Phrases with diehard

Questions about diehard

What does diehard mean?
Diehard means unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.
What is diehard in Tamil?
Diehard in Tamil is துவளா வினைஞன். See Diehard meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is diehard?
Diehard can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce diehard?
Diehard is pronounced /ˈdaɪ.hɑɹd/ (US).

Words near diehard in the dictionary

  1. Diego-Suarez
  2. diegos
  3. Dieguez
  4. Diegueño
  5. Diegueños
  6. diehard
  7. diehard test
  8. diehard tests
  9. diehards
  10. Diehl
  11. Diehls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: diehard (page history and authors); Diehard (page history and authors); diehard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diehard (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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