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語源

From the verb phrase die hard.

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形容詞

diehard (comparative more diehard, superlative most diehard)

1. Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.
2. Fanatically opposing progress or reform.
3. Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.
   • 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 644:

     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.

   For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:obstinate

名詞

diehard (複数形 diehards)

1. A person with such an attitude.
   • 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in RailwAy Magazine, page 13:

     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— […] .

アナグラム

• dihedra