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