Synonym: hard-nosed, mulish, practical, pragmatic. Similar words: headed, pigheaded, bullheaded, clear-headed, levelheaded, hard hat, beaded, pleaded. Meaning: adj. 1. unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack 2. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory.
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1. He's a hardheaded old man.
2. A useful, sensible, hard-headed man.
3. These two big, hardheaded women, one player, one coach, have not learned to cut each other any slack.
4. But, in the privacy of the polling booth, cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play.
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5. So why should down-to-earth, hard-headed Lancastrians be convinced by the marketing of this toolkit?
6. To see such hard-headed investigators wrestling with such uncertain data is fascinating.
7. The consequence was a timid but hard-headed daughter Sethe would die to protect.
8. My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that kept the wolf at bay.
9. If you weren't so hardheaded, maybe I could teach you something.
10. In all fairness, Maskelyne is more an antihero than a villain, probably more hardheaded than hard-hearted.
11. Luther's Protestantism is a grand theology, a sonorous earnest hardheaded Christianity.
12. Midwesterners are straightforward and unpretentious, with a reputation as resolute individualists who can be somewhat hardheaded.
13. He keeps his way to be an excellent employee, simply to prove that' visionaries 'can be hardheaded.
14. Known to villagers and his children alike as "Lao Shuji, " or Old Secretary, Wu has a genial, grandfatherly demeanor that belies a hardheaded steeliness.
15. When it comes to talking about Chinese leaders he has met, Mr. Kissinger, the hardheaded apostle of realpolitik, can sound almost starry-eyed.
More similar words: headed, pigheaded, bullheaded, clear-headed, levelheaded, hard hat, beaded, pleaded, dreaded, threaded, double-header, cold-hearted, kindhearted, good-hearted, in good health, jaded, loaded, degraded, head, deaden, reader, leader, blockaded, heads, ahead, heady, dead end, leaders, charade, barricaded.