Word Meanings - PIG-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PIG-HEADED)
- Stubborn
- Tough
- unbending
- unyielding
- hard
- obstinate
- intractable
- obdurate
- stiff
- harsh
- inflexible
- headstrong
- refractory
- heady
- contumacious
- pig-headed
Related words: (words related to PIG-HEADED)
- PIG-HEADED
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - HARSH
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste. - INFLEXIBLE
1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper - STIFF
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be - HEADSTRONGNESS
Obstinacy. Gayton. - STIFFTAIL
The ruddy duck. - OBSTINATE
a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob + a word from the 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness. - STIFFISH
Somewhat stiff. - STIFFNESS
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South. - TOUGH-CAKE
See - TOUGHEN
To grow or make tough, or tougher. - INTRACTABLE
Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; - TOUGH-HEAD
The ruddy duck. - OBDURATE
1. Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Hooker. Art thou obdurate, flinty, - TOUGHLY
In a tough manner. - TOUGH-PITCH
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake. - UNBEND
Etym: 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. 2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. You do unbend your - RESTIFF
Restive. - RESTIFFNESS
Restiveness.