Meaning

4 senses

  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.

    eingefleischt, hartgesotten

  4. (idiomatic)Strongly or fanatically determined or devoted.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. He's just a diehard company man.

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  2. I'm a diehard co-op member.

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  3. Tom is a diehard Yankees fan, and rarely misses a home game.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
thorough of in one's beliefs:

Origin

Deverbal from die hard.

Deverbal from die hard.

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Forms

more diehard, most diehard
Comparativemore diehard Lesson
Superlativemost diehard Lesson

regular

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddiehard test

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
didodieA2dieseldietA2

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