stiff necked

adjective

Roget 606: obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened; inflexible etc. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert etc. 172; unchangeable etc. 150; inexorable etc. (determined) 604; mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.    dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.    willful, self-willed, perverse; resty^†, restive, restiff^†; pervicacious^†, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete [Fr.]; contumacious; crossgrained^†.    arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced etc. 481; creed-bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible^†; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable^†; incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety etc. 608.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: Quakerish, Victorian, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, censorious, demure, dogged, dogmatic, erect, fanatic, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, house-proud, independent, intolerant, intractable, mid-Victorian, mulish, narrow, obstinate, old-maidish, opinionated, overmodest, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, prideful, priggish, prim, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, prudish, puritanical, purse-proud, refractory, restive, sanctimonious, self-confident, self-esteeming, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-sufficient, self-willed, set, smug, straitlaced, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, tenacious, uncooperative, unregenerate, unyielding, willful ... show more.

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