stiff-necked
11Stiff-necked — A stiff necked person is rather formal and finds it hard to relax in company …
12stiff-necked — adjective haughtily stubborn a stiff necked old Boston brahmin • Similar to: ↑stubborn, ↑obstinate, ↑unregenerate …
13Stiff Necked Fools — is the eighth song written by Bob Marley on his posthumous 1983 reggae album, Confrontation .The title and lyrics reference both the Old Testament and New Testament in the Judeo Christian bible …
14stiff-necked — stiffneckedly /stif nek id lee, nekt lee/, adv. stiffneckedness, n. /stif nekt /, adj. 1. having a stiff neck; having torticollis. 2. haughty and obstinate; refractory. [1520 30] Syn. 2. stubborn, obstinate, intractable, willful, pigheaded. * * * …
15stiff-necked — /ˈstɪf nɛkt/ (say stif nekt) adjective 1. having a stiff neck. 2. stubborn; perversely obstinate; refractory …
16stiff-necked — adjective Date: 1526 1. haughty, stubborn 2. formal, stilted …
17stiff-necked — adjective Stubborn and arrogant. 1611 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from… …
18stiff necked — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, censorious, demure, dogged, dogmatic, erect, fanatic, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, house proud, independent,… …
19stiff-necked — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. stubborn, unyielding, priggish; see obstinate , prudish . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Tenaciously unwilling to yield: bullheaded, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse,… …
20stiff necked — stubborn …
