- pigheaded
- adjective Date: 1620 willfully or perversely unyielding ; obstinate • pigheadedly adverb • pigheadedness noun
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pigheaded — index pertinacious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
pigheaded — (adj.) also pig headed, see PIG (Cf. pig) (n.) + HEADED (Cf. headed) … Etymology dictionary
pigheaded — *obstinate, stubborn, mulish, stiff necked, bullheaded, dogged, pertinacious Analogous words: headstrong, willful, recalcitrant, refractory (see UNRULY): *contrary, perverse, froward … New Dictionary of Synonyms
pigheaded — [adj] stubborn bullheaded, contrary, dense*, forward, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mulish*, obstinate, perverse, recalcitrant, self willed, stiff necked, stupid*, unyielding, willful; concepts 404,542 Ant. flexible, reasonable … New thesaurus
pigheaded — [pig′hed΄id] adj. stubborn; obstinate; mulish pigheadedly adv. pigheadedness n … English World dictionary
pigheaded — adj. pigheaded of (that was pigheaded of him) * * * [ˌpɪg hedɪd] pigheaded of (that was pigheaded of him) … Combinatory dictionary
pigheaded — mod. stupidly stubborn. (From the notion that pigs are immovable.) □ You are unbelievably pigheaded! □ What a stupid pigheaded position to take … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
pigheaded — {adj.} Stubborn; unwilling to compromise. * / Stop being so pigheaded! she cried. I, too, can be right sometimes! / … Dictionary of American idioms
pigheaded — {adj.} Stubborn; unwilling to compromise. * / Stop being so pigheaded! she cried. I, too, can be right sometimes! / … Dictionary of American idioms
pigheaded — pigheadedly, adv. pigheadedness, n. /pig hed id/, adj. stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance. [1610 20; PIG1 + HEADED] Syn. bullheaded, mulish. * * * … Universalium
pigheaded — pig|head|ed [ˌpıgˈhedıd] adj determined to do things the way you want and refusing to change your mind, even when there are good reasons to do so = ↑stubborn ▪ Never have I met a woman so obstinate, so pigheaded! >pigheadedness n [U] ▪ It was… … Dictionary of contemporary English
