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  • 11pig-headed — a. Obstinate, stupidly obstinate, foolish …

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  • 12pig-headed — /ˈpɪg hɛdəd / (say pig heduhd) adjective stupidly obstinate …

  • 13pig-headed — Adj. Obstinate …

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  • 14obstinate — adjective Syn: stubborn, pig headed, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, intransigent, intractable, self willed Ant: compliant …

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  • 15pig-headedly — adverb in a stubborn unregenerate manner she remained stubbornly in the same position • Syn: ↑stubbornly, ↑obdurately, ↑mulishly, ↑obstinately, ↑cussedly • Derived from adjective: ↑cussed …

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  • 16pigheaded — pig|head|ed [ ,pıg hedəd ] adjective INFORMAL not willing to change your opinions or intentions, even when it is obvious that they are not right: OBSTINATE ╾ pig|head|ed|ly adverb ╾ pig|head|ed|ness noun uncount …

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  • 17indocile — adj unsubmissive, intractable, stubborn, obstinate, pig headed, mulish, obdurate, headstrong, willful, self willed, opinionated; cross grained, perverse, contrary, forward, resistant, opposed, restive, balking; refractory, recalcitrant,… …

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  • 18insubordinate — adj 1. unsubordinate, defiant, rebellious; insurrectional, mutinous, revolting, seditious, insurgent, riotous, revolutionary; anarchistic, lawless. 2. disobedient, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomplying,… …

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  • 19restive — adj 1. restless, uneasy, nervous, unquiet, impatient. See restless(def. 2). 2. refractory, fractious, disobedient, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomply ing, uncompliant, noncompliant, noncooperative, uncooperative;… …

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  • 20rigid — adj 1. stiff, hard, inflexible, unflexible, non flexible, unbendable, unbending, unyielding; inelastic, unplastic, nonpliant, unmalleable, nonmailable; tight, tense, taut, Inf. stiff as a poker, Inf. stiff as a ramrod. 2. fixed, set, firm,… …

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