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