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pigheaded
adjective pig·head·ed \ˈpig-ˌhe-dəd\
: refusing to do what other people want or to change your opinion or the way you do something : very stubborn
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First Known Use of PIGHEADED
1620
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- adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, hard-nosed, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, obstinate, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
Rhymes with PIGHEADED
airheaded, bareheaded, bigheaded, bullheaded, clearheaded, coolheaded, eggheaded, embedded, fatheaded, hardheaded, hotheaded, light-headed, longheaded, lunkheaded, pinheaded, redheaded, roundheaded, sapheaded, softheaded, swelled-headed, swellheaded, thickheaded, towheaded, unleaded, white-headed, wrongheaded
PIGHEADEDNESS Defined for Kids
pigheaded
adjective pig·head·ed \ˈpig-ˈhe-dəd\
Definition of PIGHEADED for Kids
: very stubborn <She was too pigheaded to listen.>
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