- die-hard, rock-ribbed - tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed republican"
Antonym: flexible (indirect, via inflexible)
- traditionalist, diehard - one who adheres to traditional views
--1 is a kind of conservative, conservativist
--1 has particulars: Rip van WinkleDerived form: verb die hard1