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