hard-headedadj.

Brit.

/ˌhɑːdˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈhɑrdˌhɛdəd/

Forms: see hard adj. and n. and headed adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hard adj., headed adj.

Etymology: < hard adj. + headed adj. Compare earlier hardhead n.²

a. Of a horse or other animal: obstinately disobedient; uncooperative, recalcitrant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > stubborn or restive

restiffc1390

restyc1465

stiff-necked1526

hard-headed?1532

restive1549

rusty1555

hard-mouthed1565

unwayed1607

haunty1657

nappy1924

?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) ii. sig. B^v Semblablye, what horse welle broken in youthe is not after to the ryder gentyll and easye? And they that be roughe and yll broken, be not they verye harde heeded and fyers of stomake?

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1018 Cyrus horse that was whotte in the mouth, and hard headed as we haue told you: caried his master spyte of his hart farre from his men.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 306 It must be regarded that the horsse in leading be not drawne after you, for so will he be made hard headed, vnwilling to follow.

1861 Farmer & Gardener Oct. 126/2 To Hold a Hard-headed Horse.—I wish..to describe a simple method of holding a fiery hard-bitted or run-away horse.

1894 B. Waters Mod. Training & Handling xix. 251 The amateur..would do well to restrain the liberties of an obstinate, hard-headed dog as soon as possible, consistently with his peculiarities.

1911 E. P. Lyle Transformation of Krag iii. v. 231 Contemplating the long ears of his hard-headed mule.

1977 Field & Stream Sept. 150/1 (heading) How do you handle this hard-headed animal [sc. a mountain horse]?

2005 G. Norman Riding with Jeb Stuart ix. 82 I wasn't going to let some hardheaded hound ruin what had always been one of my deepest pleasures [sc. hunting].

b. Of a person, or a person's character or behaviour: stubborn, uncompromising, intractable. Also of a fact, opinion, etc.: irrefutable, unyielding.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective]

starkOE

moodyOE

stithc1000

stidyc1175

stallc1275

harda1382

stubbornc1386

obstinate?1387

throa1400

hard nolleda1425

obstinant?a1425

pertinacec1425

stablec1440

dour1488

unresigned1497

difficultc1503

hard-necked1530

pertinatec1534

obstacle1535

stout-stomached1549

hard-faced1567

stunt1581

hard-headed1583

pertinacious1583

stuntly1583

peremptory1589

stomachous1590

mulish1600

stomachful1600

obstined1606

restive1633

obstinacious1649

opinionated1649

tenacious1656

iron-sided1659

sturdy1664

cat-witted1672

obstinated1672

unyielding1677

ruggish1688

bullet-headed1699

tough1780

pelsy1785

stupid1788

hard-set1818

thick and thin1822

stuntya1825

rigwiddie1826

indomitable1830

recalcitrant1830

set1848

mule-headed1870

muley1871

capitose1881

hard-nosed1917

tight1928

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie x. 57 We bee hardheaded and thinke that all that euer is sayde is but a mockerie.

1642 King Charles I Gracious Answer Earles Bristol & Dorset 7 By which we may rectifie this hard-headed distraction.

1731 Ess. upon Something (new ed.) 26 A Pack of obstinate, hard-headed, incorrigible, opinionated Mongrells.

1751 J. Shebbeare Lett. on Eng. Nation I. Ded. p. xix The Americans are a hard-headed and stubborn race, descended from those fathers, who are great enemies to ministers.

1859 J. de Marguerittes Italy & War of 1859 xiv. 170 If it depends upon him to terminate the present war, he will display as much hard-headed obstinacy as Lord North did during the Revolutionary war.

1867 Magnet (London) 25 Mar. 4/6 The hard-headed foreigner accepts no contradiction of his belief.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 397 The man of science like the man in the street has to face hardheaded facts that cannot be blinked and explain them as best he can.

1930 Washington Post 8 Feb. 6 The world is full of..ignorant, stupid people whose heads are sealed tight to prevent the entrance of a new idea. They are proud of being hard-headed. They think their stubborn rejection of new ideas is virtue.

2009 K. Gernant & Chen Zeping tr. ‘Can Xue’ Five Spice St. 119 His wife was a loving person, but very hard-headed and monomaniacal about everything.

2. literal. Having a physically hard head.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [adjective] > having

headedOE

cop-headed1519

small-headedc1540

jolt-headed1552

chuff-headed1563

ass-headed1584

two-headed1596

golden-headed1598

hard-headed1601

big-headed1614

bicipitous1646

buffle-headed1654

female-headed1655

heavy-headed1684

bullet-headed1699

jolter-headed1748

pinheaded1771

pigheaded1774

thin-headed1804

roundhead1842

bulbous-headed1860

blob-headed1865

occipital1873

fat-headed1883

mesopic1885

peanut-headed1906

dome-headed1910

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Index sig. Iii.iij^v/1 The Parrat..hard headed, feeble footed.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dure-teste, a kind of spotted and hard-headed Spider.

1663 J. Beale Let. 14 Dec. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 231 The yeomans powderd beefe, & rasty bacon sweetened & relieved with healthfull sauces, hard headed Cabbages, & rootes.

1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1360 Their Mouths opens Horizontally (to the right and left) like that of a Wasp, and hard headed Maggot.

1751 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 510/2 Some [oats]..being thick-hulled, hard-headed, long-tailed, and containing a very scanty proportion of grain or flour.

1870 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Oct. 695/1 The skull is no worse for its roll, you see; he was fortunately a hard-headed gentleman who originally owned it.

1886 Cornhill Mag. July 36 A hard-headed old chap (so hard-headed, indeed, as to be still alive and hearty, though it is reported of him that he has tried the thickness of his skull against the kerbstones of all the neighbouring market towns).

1942 Pop. Sci. Oct. 136/1 Most of your hammering will be on the rubber surface..which a hard-headed hammer would injure.

2008 P. Bernstein Courage to Heal vii. 45 ‘You're lucky you didn't fracture your skull.’ ‘Too hard headed for that.’

3. Practical, pragmatic; shrewd; unsentimental, ruthless. Cf. hard adj. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [adjective]

wittyc1380

perceivedc1425

sensible?a1439

sober-minded1534

staida1555

sonsy1568

mother-witted1593

unfoolish1603

capable1609

sober1619

hard-headed1779

commonsensical1792

sensical1795

sober-minded1811

common-sensible1813

savvy1826

common sensed1834

level1869

level-headed1879

square-headed1896

1779 F. Burney Let. 12 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 380 Mrs. Dickens is..a sensible, hard Headed Woman.

1820 T. Carlyle Let. 14 Feb. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) I. 227 Malcolm Laing has written an intelligent, hard-headed rough account of the time which elapsed from James first's accession to the English throne.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 1/1 Standing..at Bradford before five thousand hard-headed Yorkshiremen.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxiv. 609 A shrewd, cool, hard-headed man of business.

1955 Washington Post 29 May a4 Love for peace will not prevent the American people from subjecting any Soviet peace moves to ‘unemotional’ and ‘hard-headed’ analysis.

1976 Spectator 24 Jan. 24/3 The social and economic arguments for conservation now need stating in a hard-headed manner.

2012 Independent 23 Nov. 23/4 Council money is not largesse but hard-headed investment in the cultural industries which will be at the heart of economic growth.

Derivatives

hard-ˈheadedly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [adverb]

sensibly1578

commonsensically1828

common-sensibly1849

common-sensely1850

hard-headedly1881

1881 Lake Shore (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) Times 22 Nov. If these two men did not go at it as hard-headedly as though business and not love, could ‘make the world go round.’

1962 N.Y. Times 18 July 28 They are hard-headedly concerned with this country's economic and political destiny and prepared to make sacrifices to insure success.

2005 M. Livio Equation that couldn't be Solved iv. 94 Abel was given a last chance to apologize, which he hard-headedly declined.

hard-ˈheadedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [noun] > possession of

sensibleness1642

hard-headedness1819

commonsensicality1842

level-headedness1876

square-headedness1930

1819 St James's Chron. & London Evening Post 14 Aug. It is in this mixture of sheer speculative and active hard headedness..that we must seek for the true differential quality of the Scottish peasants.

1970 N.Y. Times 22 Mar. 289 That remarkable gift of style—delicacy of perception combined with a stubborn and disabused hard-headedness—which distinguished all of Miss Porter's best prose.

2008 N.Y. Mag. 1 Dec. 23/2 But choosing Hillary demonstrates more than merely get-her-done, mission-driven hardheadedness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hard-headed
释义	hard-headedadj. Brit. /ˌhɑːdˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈhɑrdˌhɛdəd/ Forms: see hard adj. and n. and headed adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hard adj., headed adj. Etymology: < hard adj. + headed adj. Compare earlier hardhead n.² 1. a. Of a horse or other animal: obstinately disobedient; uncooperative, recalcitrant. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > stubborn or restive restiffc1390 restyc1465 stiff-necked1526 hard-headed?1532 restive1549 rusty1555 hard-mouthed1565 unwayed1607 haunty1657 nappy1924 ?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) ii. sig. B^v Semblablye, what horse welle broken in youthe is not after to the ryder gentyll and easye? And they that be roughe and yll broken, be not they verye harde heeded and fyers of stomake? 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1018 Cyrus horse that was whotte in the mouth, and hard headed as we haue told you: caried his master spyte of his hart farre from his men. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 306 It must be regarded that the horsse in leading be not drawne after you, for so will he be made hard headed, vnwilling to follow. 1861 Farmer & Gardener Oct. 126/2 To Hold a Hard-headed Horse.—I wish..to describe a simple method of holding a fiery hard-bitted or run-away horse. 1894 B. Waters Mod. Training & Handling xix. 251 The amateur..would do well to restrain the liberties of an obstinate, hard-headed dog as soon as possible, consistently with his peculiarities. 1911 E. P. Lyle Transformation of Krag iii. v. 231 Contemplating the long ears of his hard-headed mule. 1977 Field & Stream Sept. 150/1 (heading) How do you handle this hard-headed animal [sc. a mountain horse]? 2005 G. Norman Riding with Jeb Stuart ix. 82 I wasn't going to let some hardheaded hound ruin what had always been one of my deepest pleasures [sc. hunting]. b. Of a person, or a person's character or behaviour: stubborn, uncompromising, intractable. Also of a fact, opinion, etc.: irrefutable, unyielding. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] starkOE moodyOE stithc1000 stidyc1175 stallc1275 harda1382 stubbornc1386 obstinate?1387 throa1400 hard nolleda1425 obstinant?a1425 pertinacec1425 stablec1440 dour1488 unresigned1497 difficultc1503 hard-necked1530 pertinatec1534 obstacle1535 stout-stomached1549 hard-faced1567 stunt1581 hard-headed1583 pertinacious1583 stuntly1583 peremptory1589 stomachous1590 mulish1600 stomachful1600 obstined1606 restive1633 obstinacious1649 opinionated1649 tenacious1656 iron-sided1659 sturdy1664 cat-witted1672 obstinated1672 unyielding1677 ruggish1688 bullet-headed1699 tough1780 pelsy1785 stupid1788 hard-set1818 thick and thin1822 stuntya1825 rigwiddie1826 indomitable1830 recalcitrant1830 set1848 mule-headed1870 muley1871 capitose1881 hard-nosed1917 tight1928 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie x. 57 We bee hardheaded and thinke that all that euer is sayde is but a mockerie. 1642 King Charles I Gracious Answer Earles Bristol & Dorset 7 By which we may rectifie this hard-headed distraction. 1731 Ess. upon Something (new ed.) 26 A Pack of obstinate, hard-headed, incorrigible, opinionated Mongrells. 1751 J. Shebbeare Lett. on Eng. Nation I. Ded. p. xix The Americans are a hard-headed and stubborn race, descended from those fathers, who are great enemies to ministers. 1859 J. de Marguerittes Italy & War of 1859 xiv. 170 If it depends upon him to terminate the present war, he will display as much hard-headed obstinacy as Lord North did during the Revolutionary war. 1867 Magnet (London) 25 Mar. 4/6 The hard-headed foreigner accepts no contradiction of his belief. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 397 The man of science like the man in the street has to face hardheaded facts that cannot be blinked and explain them as best he can. 1930 Washington Post 8 Feb. 6 The world is full of..ignorant, stupid people whose heads are sealed tight to prevent the entrance of a new idea. They are proud of being hard-headed. They think their stubborn rejection of new ideas is virtue. 2009 K. Gernant & Chen Zeping tr. ‘Can Xue’ Five Spice St. 119 His wife was a loving person, but very hard-headed and monomaniacal about everything. 2. literal. Having a physically hard head. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [adjective] > having headedOE cop-headed1519 small-headedc1540 jolt-headed1552 chuff-headed1563 ass-headed1584 two-headed1596 golden-headed1598 hard-headed1601 big-headed1614 bicipitous1646 buffle-headed1654 female-headed1655 heavy-headed1684 bullet-headed1699 jolter-headed1748 pinheaded1771 pigheaded1774 thin-headed1804 roundhead1842 bulbous-headed1860 blob-headed1865 occipital1873 fat-headed1883 mesopic1885 peanut-headed1906 dome-headed1910 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. Index sig. Iii.iij^v/1 The Parrat..hard headed, feeble footed. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dure-teste, a kind of spotted and hard-headed Spider. 1663 J. Beale Let. 14 Dec. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 231 The yeomans powderd beefe, & rasty bacon sweetened & relieved with healthfull sauces, hard headed Cabbages, & rootes. 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1360 Their Mouths opens Horizontally (to the right and left) like that of a Wasp, and hard headed Maggot. 1751 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 510/2 Some [oats]..being thick-hulled, hard-headed, long-tailed, and containing a very scanty proportion of grain or flour. 1870 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Oct. 695/1 The skull is no worse for its roll, you see; he was fortunately a hard-headed gentleman who originally owned it. 1886 Cornhill Mag. July 36 A hard-headed old chap (so hard-headed, indeed, as to be still alive and hearty, though it is reported of him that he has tried the thickness of his skull against the kerbstones of all the neighbouring market towns). 1942 Pop. Sci. Oct. 136/1 Most of your hammering will be on the rubber surface..which a hard-headed hammer would injure. 2008 P. Bernstein Courage to Heal vii. 45 ‘You're lucky you didn't fracture your skull.’ ‘Too hard headed for that.’ 3. Practical, pragmatic; shrewd; unsentimental, ruthless. Cf. hard adj. 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [adjective] wittyc1380 perceivedc1425 sensible?a1439 sober-minded1534 staida1555 sonsy1568 mother-witted1593 unfoolish1603 capable1609 sober1619 hard-headed1779 commonsensical1792 sensical1795 sober-minded1811 common-sensible1813 savvy1826 common sensed1834 level1869 level-headed1879 square-headed1896 1779 F. Burney Let. 12 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 380 Mrs. Dickens is..a sensible, hard Headed Woman. 1820 T. Carlyle Let. 14 Feb. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) I. 227 Malcolm Laing has written an intelligent, hard-headed rough account of the time which elapsed from James first's accession to the English throne. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 1/1 Standing..at Bradford before five thousand hard-headed Yorkshiremen. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxiv. 609 A shrewd, cool, hard-headed man of business. 1955 Washington Post 29 May a4 Love for peace will not prevent the American people from subjecting any Soviet peace moves to ‘unemotional’ and ‘hard-headed’ analysis. 1976 Spectator 24 Jan. 24/3 The social and economic arguments for conservation now need stating in a hard-headed manner. 2012 Independent 23 Nov. 23/4 Council money is not largesse but hard-headed investment in the cultural industries which will be at the heart of economic growth. Derivatives hard-ˈheadedly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [adverb] sensibly1578 commonsensically1828 common-sensibly1849 common-sensely1850 hard-headedly1881 1881 Lake Shore (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) Times 22 Nov. If these two men did not go at it as hard-headedly as though business and not love, could ‘make the world go round.’ 1962 N.Y. Times 18 July 28 They are hard-headedly concerned with this country's economic and political destiny and prepared to make sacrifices to insure success. 2005 M. Livio Equation that couldn't be Solved iv. 94 Abel was given a last chance to apologize, which he hard-headedly declined. hard-ˈheadedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [noun] > possession of sensibleness1642 hard-headedness1819 commonsensicality1842 level-headedness1876 square-headedness1930 1819 St James's Chron. & London Evening Post 14 Aug. It is in this mixture of sheer speculative and active hard headedness..that we must seek for the true differential quality of the Scottish peasants. 1970 N.Y. Times 22 Mar. 289 That remarkable gift of style—delicacy of perception combined with a stubborn and disabused hard-headedness—which distinguished all of Miss Porter's best prose. 2008 N.Y. Mag. 1 Dec. 23/2 But choosing Hillary demonstrates more than merely get-her-done, mission-driven hardheadedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1532
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