pigheaded

pigheaded
adj
1. stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, muleheaded, bullheaded, bullish, headstrong; willful, self-willed, contrary, perverse, wrongheaded, cross-grained, balky, uncooperative, froward, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; stupid, dense, blunt, crass, undiscerning, uncomprehending; moronic, idiotic, imbecilic, mindless, witless, brainless; slow-witted, numskulled, thick-skulled, cloddish.
2. obstinate, inflexible, immovable, not to be moved, adamant, adamantine, stiff-necked, set, set in one's ways, Inf. hard-core, Inf. hard-shell; inexorable, im-cumulation; heap, mound, hill, mountain; pile, stack, bunch, pack, wad, lot, fistful, mass, Sl. gob.
2. collision, crash, chain accidents, accident, wreck, Inf. smash-up, Inf. smash, Inf. crack-up, Inf. demolition derby.

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  • pigheaded — pigheadedly, adv. pigheadedness, n. /pig hed id/, adj. stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance. [1610 20; PIG1 + HEADED] Syn. bullheaded, mulish. * * * …   Universalium

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