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单词 doggedness
释义

dogged

adjective

dog·​ged ˈdȯ-gəd How to pronounce dogged (audio)
: marked by stubborn determination
a dogged competitor
dogged devotion
doggedly adverb
doggedness noun

Synonyms

  • insistent
  • patient
  • persevering
  • persistent
  • pertinacious
  • tenacious
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Example Sentences

Her dogged efforts eventually paid off. a dogged pursuit of power
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Word History

Etymology

see dog entry 1

First Known Use

1700, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

dogged

adjective

dog·​ged ˈdȯ-gəd How to pronounce dogged (audio)
: stubbornly determined
He continued his dogged search for the truth.

doggedness

noun

as in persistence
a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion being an effective detective requires doggedness as well as cleverness

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • persistence
  • persistency
  • stubbornness
  • obstinacy
  • pigheadedness
  • determination
  • obduracy
  • bullheadedness
  • pertinacity
  • resolve
  • intransigence
  • willfulness
  • hardheadedness
  • tenacity
  • perseverance
  • steadfastness
  • tenaciousness
  • obdurateness
  • defiance
  • relentlessness
  • mulishness
  • perversity
  • implacability
  • obstinateness
  • wrongheadedness
  • waywardness
  • self-will
  • rebelliousness
  • inflexibility
  • single-mindedness
  • adamancy
  • pertinaciousness
  • adamance
  • opinionatedness
  • self-opinionatedness
  • inexorability
  • sternness
  • rigidity
  • perverseness
  • stick-to-itiveness
  • cussedness
  • strictness
  • inveteracy
  • firmness
  • bloody-mindedness
  • hardness
  • rigidness
  • contrariness
  • cantankerousness
  • rigorousness
  • recalcitrance
  • intractability
  • rigor
  • immovability
  • anal-retentiveness
  • unruliness
  • contumacy
  • disobedience
  • insubordination
  • refractoriness
  • frowardness
  • immovableness
  • narrow-mindedness
  • balkiness
  • recalcitrancy
  • obstreperousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • reasonableness
  • receptiveness
  • acquiescence
  • receptivity
  • flexibility
  • acceptance
  • pliancy
  • pliability
  • reasonability
  • docility
  • willingness
  • open-mindedness
  • obedience
  • broad-mindedness
  • compliance
  • subordination
  • surrender
  • slavishness
  • submission
  • subservience
  • yielding
  • pliableness
  • subserviency
  • pliantness
  • subordinateness
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