| Pronunciation: | | 'dogid
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| Matching Terms: | | doggedly, doggedness, dogger, doggerel, doggerel verse, doggerman, dogget
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| | Definition: | | [adj] stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bulldog, dour, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, unyielding |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dog"ged\, a. [Fron. {Dog}.]
1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.]
The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. -- Sir
W. Scott.
2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent;
as, dogged resolution; dogged work.
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| | Related Terms: | | adamant, assiduous, badgered, baited, balking, balky, bedeviled, beset, bigoted, bugged, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, bullyragged, case-hardened, chivied, constant, continuing, deviled, diligent, dogmatic, enduring, faithful, fanatic, fretted, harassed, hardheaded, harried, haunted, headstrong, heckled, hectored, hounded, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, inexorable, insistent, intolerant, invincible, lasting, loyal, mulish, needled, never-tiring, nipped at, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, patient, patient as Job, permanent, persecuted, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pestered, picked on, pigheaded, plagued, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, ragged, rapt, relentless, resolute, restive, rigid, sedulous, self-willed, set, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, stiff-necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, sulky, sullen, teased, tenacious, tireless, tormented, unabating, unbending, unconquerable, uncooperative, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unregenerate, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vexed, weariless, willful, worried, worried sick, worried stiff |
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