pig-headed
/pɪɡˈhɛdɪd
/adjective
Stupidly obstinate: I was too pig-headed to listen a maddening, pig-headed child...
- What keeps me going is a belief in the hospice movement, my pig-headed stubbornness and more recently, the advert for the Cancer Research Fund, which shows three girls playing in a meadow.
- In the long term they are probably right; too many of the acts of the senate over the years have been pig-headed, wilful and capricious and simply cannot be justified in a modern democracy.
- I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool
Synonyms
obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, bull-headed, obdurate, headstrong, self-willed, wilful, perverse, contrary, recalcitrant, refractory, stiff-necked;
tenacious, dogged, single-minded, inflexible, uncompromising, adamant, intractable, intransigent, unyielding, unmalleable, unpersuadable
Derivatives
pig-headedly
/ adverb ...- So I'm pig-headedly refusing to take out my chisel and chip away at any slight imperfections.
- Why does the executive so pig-headedly refuse to loosen the state's control over schools?
- At the same time, that does not mean that a medical man can obstinately and pig-headedly carry on with some old technique if it has been proved to be contrary to what is really substantially the whole of informed medical opinion’.
pig-headedness
/ noun ...- There is a fine line between loyalty and pig-headedness.
- A slump saw him plummet to No141 before hard work and pig-headedness drove him back to become world No1.
- This pig-headedness ensures that changes that are crying out to be made are kept in check.
Rhymes
- color transparency
- color-treat
- color-treated
- color triangle
- color twist
- color type
- color value
- color vision
- colorway
- color-weak
- color weakness
- color word
- coloss
- colossal
- colossalise
- colossality
- colossalize
- colossally
- colossal order
- colossal squid
- colossean
- Colosseum
- Colossian
- Colossians, Epistle to the
- colossic