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doggedadjective continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragementa madman who spent his life in dogged pursuit of power insistent, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious assured, certain, dedicated, determined, firm, hell-bent, intent, positive, resolute, resolved, single-minded, sureadamant, bullheaded, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, indurate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unregenerate, unyielding, willful(or wilful)unfaltering, unhesitating, unwaveringresistant, wayward, wrongheadedconstant, devoted, faithful, good, loyal, staunch(also stanch), steadfast, steady, trueindomitable, unconquerablehard, inflexible, relentless, stern, unbending, unflinching, unrelenting quitting, surrendering, yieldingfaltering, hesitant, hesitating, irresolute, vacillating, waveringdisloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionyour dogged adherence to a really lame argument is embarrassing adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, 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 showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purposea dogged search for the missing piece of the puzzle determined, grim, implacable, relentless, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting, unyielding persevering, persistent, tenacioushard, hardheaded, headstrong, intractable, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stubborn, uncooperative, willful(or wilful)merciless, ruthless, unforgiving slackening, softening, yieldingimpotent, invertebrate, slack, spineless, weakcomplaisant, obliging, pliable, pliant doggedverbpast tense of dogto go after or on the track ofstar athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public bird-dogged, chased, coursed, followed, hounded, pursued, ran(also chiefly dialectical run), shadowed, tagged, tailed, traced, tracked, trailed accompanied, chaperoned, escortedhunted, searched (for), soughteyed, observed, watched ran after guided, led, piloted headed to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminderstired of constantly having to dog their son about cleaning his room henpecked, hounded, nagged, needled, pecked (at) carped (at), fussed (about or over), nitpickedannoyed, badgered, baited, bothered, bugged, chivied(or chivvied), harassed, harried, hassled, irked, pestered, plagued, rode(or chiefly dialectical rid), vexed(also vext), yapped (at)egged, goaded, incited, prodded, prompted, spurred, urgedexhorted, insisted, pressed, pressured, pushedblandished, cajoled, coaxed, wheedledbegged, importuned, pleaded(or pled also plead) picked at complimentedcommended, lauded, praised, recommended, toutedacclaimed, applauded, built up, eulogized, extolled adj.obstinate, dogged, stubborn, pertinacious, mulish mean fixed and unyielding in course or purpose.obstinate implies usually an unreasonable persistence.an obstinate proponent of conspiracy theories dogged suggests an admirable often tenacious and unwavering persistence.pursued the story with dogged perseverance stubborn implies sturdiness in resisting change which may or may not be admirable.a person too stubborn to admit error pertinacious suggests an annoying or irksome persistence.a pertinacious salesclerk refusing to take no for an answer mulish implies a thoroughly unreasonable obstinacy.a mulish determination to have his own way in 1700 |