Synonyms of pigheadedness

pigheadedness

noun

as in stubbornness

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

thanks to your pigheadedness we missed our only chance to buy the house at a reasonable price

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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