pig-headed Antonyms
Strongest:
- obedient
- acquiescent
- docile
- willing
- docile
- flexible
- willing
- amenable
- yielding
- submissive
- obedient
- accepting
- submissive
- agreeable
- pliant
- amenable
- pliable
- complying
- compliant
- tractable
- pliant
- tractable
- receptive
- acquiescent
- agreeable
- complying
- accepting
- pliable
- yielding
- receptive
- compliant
- flexible
Strong:
- reasonable
- slavish
- manageable
- reasonable
- persuadable
- slavish
- placable
- manageable
- temperate
- responsive
- placable
- persuadable
- temperate
- responsive
- relenting
- relenting
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- opinionated
- hard
- implacable
- hardheaded
- pertinacious
- headstrong
- obdurate
- mulish
- perverse
- ossified
- immovable
- adamantine
- bullheaded
- wilful
- stiff-necked
- pat
- obsessive
- obstinate
- unrelenting
- inflexible
- dogged
- self-willed
- willful
- persistent
- uncompromising
- unyielding
- intransigent
- determined
- hard-nosed
- hardened
- steadfast
- strict
- unbending
Weak:
- indomitable
- stern
- firm
- inveterate
- ungovernable
- intractable
- cussed
- unruly
- single-minded
- insurgent
- inexorable
- uncooperative
- disobedient
- narrow-minded
- hidebound
- hell-bent
- resolved
- wrongheaded
- inconvincible
- defiant
- iron
- unregenerate
- refractory
- tenacious
- bloody-minded
- self-opinionated
- set
- demanding
- invincible
- stouthearted
- severe
- hard-line
- mutinous
- rigid
- unmanageable
- cantankerous
- relentless
- recalcitrant
- contrary
- hard-shell
- hard-shelled
- confirmed
- unconquerable
- unflinching
- anal-retentive
- insubordinate
- wayward
- deaf-to-reason
- contumacious
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, opinionated, hard, implacable, hardheaded, pertinacious, headstrong, obdurate, mulish
obedient, acquiescent, docile, willing, docile, flexible, willing, amenable, yielding, submissive
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.
