pig-headed
51wilful — a. [Written also Willful.] 1. Obstinate, stubborn, perverse, contumacious, refractory, headstrong, unruly, intractable, mulish, dogged, inflexible, heady, self willed, pig headed, obdurate, cantankerous. 2. Self willed, arbitrary, capricious …
52churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube …
53indocile — adj unsubmissive, intractable, stubborn, obstinate, pig headed, mulish, obdurate, headstrong, willful, self willed, opinionated; cross grained, perverse, contrary, forward, resistant, opposed, restive, balking; refractory, recalcitrant,… …
54insubordinate — adj 1. unsubordinate, defiant, rebellious; insurrectional, mutinous, revolting, seditious, insurgent, riotous, revolutionary; anarchistic, lawless. 2. disobedient, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomplying,… …
55recalcitrant — adj refractory, unmanageable, unsubmissive, intractable, contumacious, disobedient, insubordinate, difficult; fractious, rebellious, mutinous, unruly; headstrong, willfull, pervicacious, strong willed, defiant, wayward; perverse, contrary,… …
56restive — adj 1. restless, uneasy, nervous, unquiet, impatient. See restless(def. 2). 2. refractory, fractious, disobedient, recalcitrant, contumacious; undutiful, uncomplying, noncomply ing, uncompliant, noncompliant, noncooperative, uncooperative;… …
57rigid — adj 1. stiff, hard, inflexible, unflexible, non flexible, unbendable, unbending, unyielding; inelastic, unplastic, nonpliant, unmalleable, nonmailable; tight, tense, taut, Inf. stiff as a poker, Inf. stiff as a ramrod. 2. fixed, set, firm,… …
58contrary — 1. adjective 1) contrary views Syn: opposite, opposing, contradictory, clashing, conflicting, antithetical, incompatible, irreconcilable 2) she was sulky and contrary Syn: perverse, awkward …
59obstinate — adjective Syn: stubborn, pig headed, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, intransigent, intractable, self willed Ant: compliant …
60stubborn — adjective 1) you re too stubborn to admit it Syn: obstinate, headstrong, wilful, strong willed, pig headed, inflexible, uncompromising, unbending; informal stiff necked 2) stubborn stains Syn: indelible, per …
