pig-headed Antonyms
Strongest:
- acquiescent
- yielding
- docile
- yielding
- complying
- pliant
- flexible
- tractable
- agreeable
- accepting
- compliant
- acquiescent
- accepting
- submissive
- agreeable
- pliant
- pliable
- receptive
- flexible
- amenable
- obedient
- willing
- submissive
- pliable
- tractable
- obedient
- amenable
- compliant
- docile
- willing
- complying
- receptive
Strong:
- manageable
- responsive
- reasonable
- placable
- persuadable
- placable
- manageable
- responsive
- slavish
- relenting
- relenting
- temperate
- temperate
- persuadable
- slavish
- reasonable
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- obdurate
- steadfast
- obstinate
- hardened
- inflexible
- wilful
- hardheaded
- pertinacious
- obsessive
- ossified
- hard-nosed
- immovable
- mulish
- bullheaded
- self-willed
- implacable
- unbending
- pat
- willful
- adamantine
- stiff-necked
- uncompromising
- unyielding
- hard
- determined
- opinionated
- perverse
- persistent
- headstrong
- dogged
- strict
- intransigent
- unrelenting
Weak:
- firm
- contumacious
- self-opinionated
- confirmed
- unconquerable
- stern
- set
- defiant
- intractable
- disobedient
- wayward
- severe
- insubordinate
- insurgent
- cantankerous
- deaf-to-reason
- invincible
- demanding
- cussed
- contrary
- ungovernable
- indomitable
- mutinous
- hard-shelled
- iron
- hell-bent
- recalcitrant
- hard-shell
- resolved
- inconvincible
- relentless
- rigid
- bloody-minded
- refractory
- inexorable
- single-minded
- stouthearted
- anal-retentive
- unmanageable
- narrow-minded
- unregenerate
- inveterate
- hidebound
- hard-line
- tenacious
- wrongheaded
- unruly
- uncooperative
- unflinching
Meaning of pig-headed
pig-headed (a.)
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
pig-headed Sentence Examples
- Her pig-headed refusal to ask for directions left them hopelessly lost on the hike.
- Despite the coach's advice, the player's pig-headed strategy backfired in the final game.
- The negotiations were deadlocked due to the pig-headed insistence on both parties.
- The child's pig-headed tantrum in the middle of the restaurant made dinner a nightmare.
- The pig-headed king ignored the warnings of famine, leading to widespread suffering.
- Trying to reason with him was pointless; his pig-headed attitude made him impossible to persuade.
- We needed someone flexible, not someone with a pig-headed "my way or the highway" approach.
- The pig-headed insistence on tradition often hindered progress in the small village.
- Despite the obvious mistake, he continued with a pig-headed determination that only made things worse.
- Sometimes a little humility goes a long way; pig-headedness only creates problems.
FAQs About the word pig-headed
Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
adamant,stubborn, obdurate,steadfast, obstinate, hardened, inflexible, wilful, hardheaded, pertinacious
acquiescent, yielding, docile, yielding, complying, pliant, flexible, tractable, agreeable, accepting
Her pig-headed refusal to ask for directions left them hopelessly lost on the hike.
Despite the coach's advice, the player's pig-headed strategy backfired in the final game.
The negotiations were deadlocked due to the pig-headed insistence on both parties.
The child's pig-headed tantrum in the middle of the restaurant made dinner a nightmare.
