to be an obstinate pig
51Imbecility — (Roget s Thesaurus) Folly. < N PARAG:Imbecility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 want of intelligence want of intelligence &c. 498 want of intellect &c. 450 Sgm: N 1 shadowness shadowness silliness foolishness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility… …
52intractable — a. Stubborn, obstinate, perverse, refractory, dogged, headstrong, unmanageable, ungovernable, indocile, obdurate, cross grained, wilful, inflexible, unyielding, contumacious, cantankerous, froward, unruly, pig headed, mulish …
53obdurate — a. 1. Hard, harsh, rugged, rough. 2. Hardened, obstinate, firm, callous, unfeeling, stubborn, unyielding, dogged, pig headed, inflexible, inexorable, cantankerous, hardhearted, unbending, unsusceptible, insensible. 3. Depraved, graceless,… …
54wilful — a. [Written also Willful.] 1. Obstinate, stubborn, perverse, contumacious, refractory, headstrong, unruly, intractable, mulish, dogged, inflexible, heady, self willed, pig headed, obdurate, cantankerous. 2. Self willed, arbitrary, capricious …
55wrong-headed — a. Perverse, stubborn, obstinate, intractable, crotchety, mulish, headstrong, cross grained, dogged, wayward, pig headed …
56churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube …
57hard-bitten — adj 1. tough, hard, stubborn, strong willed; rigid, uncompromising, hard shell; obstinate, bullet headed, obdurate, pertinacious, mulish; headstrong, opinionated, pig headed. 2. casehardened, hardened, inured, thick skinned, insensitive,… …
58intractable — adj 1. indocile, unsubmissive, uncompliant, incompliant, uncooperative, unconforming, nonconforming; stubborn, obstinate, pervicacious, pig headed, mulish, obdurate, headstrong, willful, strong willed, wayward, wrong headed; cross grained,… …
59intransigent — adj 1. uncompromising, irreconcilable, implacable, unappeasable, inexorable; unrelenting, relentless, unmerciful, pitiless, hard hearted, unfeeling; impervious, uninfluenced, unaffected, unmoved, unpersuaded, untouched. 2. unyielding, unbending,… …
60iron — n pig iron, cast iron, wrought iron, steel. 2. flatiron, electric iron, steam iron, sadiron, mangle. 3. irons fetters, chains, shackles, gyves, bilboes, trammels; bonds, pinions; manacles, handcuffs, cuffs, Sl. bracelets, Brit. Sl. darbies;… …
