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mulish
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Adjective mulish has 1 sense
- mulish(s = adj.all) hardheaded - unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack; Array Derived form noun mulishness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mulish, adj.
1 like a mule.
2 stubborn.
1 like a mule.
2 stubborn.
Derivative
mulishly adv. mulishness n.
THESAURUS
mulish
asinine, balking, balky, bigoted, bovid, bovine, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, caprid, caprine, case-hardened, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, dogged, dogmatic, equestrian, equine, fanatic, fixed, goatish, goatlike, hardheaded, headstrong, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, intolerant, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, ovine, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, restive, ruminant, self-willed, set, sheepish, sheeplike, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, swinish, tenacious, uncooperative, ungovernable, ungulate, unregenerate, unruly, willful, wrongheadedROGET THESAURUS
mulish
Obstinacy
N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, 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, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, 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, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.
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