pigheaded

Synonyms

adamant, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful);

Antonyms

acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding;

Near Antonyms

docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractable;

accepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willing;

governable, manageable, reasonable, temperate;

slavish, subservient;

Related Words

obsessive;

wayward, wrongheaded;

determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching;

firm, hard-line, iron, severe, stern, strict;

hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid;

cantankerous;

contrary, cussed;

disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly;

defiant, insurgent, mutinous;

indomitable, invincible, unconquerable;

confirmed, inveterate, unregenerate;

demanding, exacting;

Phrases

deaf to reason;