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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

unyielding, refusal to change one's mind, stubborn;

e.g. He was handsome, but he was also pigheaded.

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Similar Words

Adamant

Adamantine

Anal

Anal-retentive

Bullheaded

Deaf

Dogged

Fractious

Hard

Hard-nosed

Headstrong

Hell-bent

Ideological

Immovable

Implacable

Inconvincible

Indocile

Inflexible

Intransigent

Mulish

Noncooperative

Obdurate

Obstinate

Opinionated

Pat

Pertinacious

Perverse

Resistant

Retentive

Self-willed

Stiff-necked

Stubborn

Unamenable

Unbending

Uncompromising

Uncooperative

Undisciplined

Unhesitating

Unpunished

Unrelenting

Unyielding

Willful

Wrongheaded

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Opposite Words

Accepting

Amenable

Biddable

Compliant

Conformable

Docile

Latitudinarian

Law-abiding

Manageable

Obedient

Obsequious

Persuadable

Placable

Receptive

Responsive

Slavish

Submissive

Subservient

Teachable

Temperate

Tractable

Undogmatic

Well-behaved

Willing

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Related Words

Anal-retentive

Argumentative

Balky

Bound

Contentious

Contrary

Controversial

Contumacious

Decisive

Defiant

Determined

Disobedient

Disputatious

Do-or-die

Doctrinaire

Dogged

Dogmatic

Firm

Froward

Grim

Hard-line

Hard-shell

Headstrong

Hell-bent

Hidebound

Implacable

Incompliant

Inexorable

Insistent

Insubordinate

Intent

Intractable

Iron

Narrow-minded

Obsessive

Obstreperous

Opinionated

Or

Out

Patient

Persistent

Pertinacious

Polemic

Pontifical

Purposeful

Quarrelsome

Rebel

Rebellious

Recalcitrant

Recusant

Refractory

Relentless

Resolute

Restive

Rigid

Severe

Single-minded

Steadfast

Stern

Stouthearted

Strict

Tenacious

Unappeasable

Uncontrollable

Unflinching

Ungovernable

Unmanageable

Unrelenting

Unruly

Untoward

Unyielding

Wayward

Willful

Wrongheaded

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