stiff-necked

Speech parts

1. stiff-necked - Adjective

2. stiff-necked - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

difficult bullhead determined firm contrary rigid persistent stubborn adamant relentless refractory intolerant inflexible intractable perverse
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Antonyms

milky good flexible cooperative humble disciplined
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Examples

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. Martin Heidegger

Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins! Fred Phelps

Down on his knees he sinks, the stiff-necked King, Stoops and kneels and grovels, chin to the mud. Robert Graves

When a stiff-necked bull stands with its four legs planted firmly and refuses to move, you cannot make it go ahead only by pulling it by the reins and using your whip. African Proverb

a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

stiff-hearted stiff-leaf goldenrod stiff-lipped stiff-neckedness stiff-tailed stiff-tailed duck