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BULLHEADEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bullheadedness mean?
• BULLHEADEDNESS (noun)
The noun BULLHEADEDNESS has 1 sense:
1. resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
Familiarity information: BULLHEADEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bullheadedness; obstinacy; obstinance; pigheadedness; self-will; stubbornness
Hypernyms ("bullheadedness" is a kind of...):
firmness; firmness of purpose; resoluteness; resolution; resolve (the trait of being resolute)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullheadedness"):
impenitence; impenitency (the trait of refusing to repent)
intransigence; intransigency (the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise)
Derivation:
bullheaded (obstinate and stupid)
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