Usually means: Stubbornly refusing to change opinion.
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  1. pigheaded: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pigheaded: Merriam-Webster
  3. pigheaded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pigheaded: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pigheaded: Vocabulary.com
  6. pigheaded: Wordnik
  7. pigheaded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pigheaded: Wiktionary
  9. pigheaded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pigheaded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pigheaded: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pigheaded: Dictionary.com
  13. pigheaded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. pigheaded: Rhymezone
  15. pigheaded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. pigheaded: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pigheaded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. pigheaded: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pigheaded: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (mildly derogatory) Obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.

Similar:
bullheaded, bullet-headed, stubborn, piggish, hardheaded, buttheaded, obstinate, meatheaded, thickheaded, stiff-backed, more...

Opposite:
open-minded, flexible, adaptable, receptive

Types:
obstinate, stubborn, headstrong, uncompromising, mulish, inflexible, obdurate, intractable, more...



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Similar:
bullheaded, bullet-headed, stubborn, piggish, hardheaded, buttheaded, obstinate, meatheaded, thickheaded, stiff-backed, more...

Opposite:
open-minded, flexible, adaptable, receptive

Types:
obstinate, stubborn, headstrong, uncompromising, mulish, inflexible, obdurate, intractable, more...



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