Synonyms of bullheadedness

bullheadedness

noun

as in pigheadedness

a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

bullheadedness runs in that family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pigheadedness
• stubbornness
• persistence
• intransigence
• hardheadedness
• obstinacy
• doggedness
• obduracy
• persistency
• willfulness
• resolve
• determination
• pertinacity
• wrongheadedness
• mulishness
• obdurateness
• defiance
• tenacity
• self-will
• obstinateness
• steadfastness
• self-opinionatedness
• perseverance
• opinionatedness
• pertinaciousness
• inflexibility
• tenaciousness
• rebelliousness
• waywardness
• perversity
• implacability
• perverseness
• adamancy
• cussedness
• relentlessness
• adamance
• single-mindedness
• inexorability
• sternness
• rigidity
• anal-retentiveness
• bloody-mindedness
• recalcitrance
• stick-to-itiveness
• strictness
• intractability
• hardness
• cantankerousness
• rigidness
• insubordination
• inveteracy
• contrariness
• firmness
• disobedience
• immovability
• unruliness
• rigorousness
• narrow-mindedness
• contumacy
• recalcitrancy
• immovableness
• refractoriness
• frowardness
• balkiness
• obstreperousness
• rigor

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• acquiescence
• receptiveness
• reasonableness
• receptivity
• acceptance
• flexibility
• pliancy
• pliability
• reasonability
• willingness
• obedience
• docility
• open-mindedness
• broad-mindedness
• subordination
• compliance
• surrender
• slavishness
• subservience
• pliantness
• submission
• pliableness
• subordinateness
• subserviency
• yielding

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• acquiescence
• receptiveness
• reasonableness
• receptivity
• acceptance
• flexibility
• pliancy
• pliability
• reasonability
• willingness
• obedience
• docility
• open-mindedness
• broad-mindedness
• subordination
• compliance
• surrender
• slavishness
• subservience
• pliantness
• submission
• pliableness
• subordinateness
• subserviency
• yielding

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