bullheaded

[ bool-hed-id ]

/ ˈbʊlˈhɛd ɪd /

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adjective

obstinately opinionated, especially in refusing to consider alternatives; stubborn.

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Origin of bullheaded

First recorded in 1810–20; bull¹ + head + -ed³

OTHER WORDS FROM bullheaded

bull·head·ed·ly, adverbbull·head·ed·ness, noun

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How to use bullheaded in a sentence

Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”
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Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
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Rodriguez now headed home to his kids, as did thousands of other police parents.
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He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.
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He had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend early that morning in Baltimore and headed for his native Brooklyn.
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The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
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But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."
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But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
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I thought this young man was going to read us some of his poetry; it's too tiresome of him to stop to tell us about his bull-dog.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
And I, for one, absolutely decline to believe in this preposterous story of his about a bull-dog.
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British Dictionary definitions for bullheaded

bull-headed

adjective

blindly obstinate; stubborn, headstrong, or stupid

Derived forms of bull-headed

bull-headedly, adverbbull-headedness, noun

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