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patadjective sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionon the issue of raising taxes the governor stands pat adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful) anal-retentive, obsessivewayward, wrongheadeddetermined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinchingfirm, hard-line, hard-shell(or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, stricthidebound, narrow-minded, rigidbloody-minded(chiefly British), cantankerouscontrary, cussedcontumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrulydefiant, insurgent, mutinousindomitable, invincible, unconquerableconfirmed, inveterate, unregeneratedemanding, exacting deaf to reason acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractableaccepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willinggovernable, manageable, reasonable, temperateslavish, subservient patadverbwithout any flaws or errorsafter months of practicing for the competition, the cheerleaders have their moves down pat faultlessly, flawlessly, ideally, immaculately, impeccably, perfectly excellently, fabulously, finely, grandly, greatly, marvelously, superbly, superiorly, superlatively, terrificallyexceptionally, fancily, specially to a nicety, to a T, to a turn, to the nines amiss, badly, defectively, faultily, imperfectly deficiently, inadequately, incompletely, insufficientlyfalliblyatrociously, execrably, wretchedly patverbto touch or handle in a tender or loving manneraffectionately patted the baby on the head caress, fondle, gentle, love, pet, stroke bill, canoodle, cuddle, neck, nestle, nose, nuzzle, snuggle, spoonfeel up, pawcradle, embrace, enfold, hugbounce, dandleknead, massagebaby, coddle, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil in the 15th century |