Hard-headed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hardheaded \hard"head`ed\, hard-headed \hard"-head`ed\, a.
     Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd; practical and
     pragmatic. -- {Hard"-head`ed*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  hardheaded
       adj 1: unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or
              attack [syn: {mulish}]
       2: guided by practical experience and observation rather than
          theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a
          hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his
          approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic
          politics" [syn: {hard-nosed}, {practical}, {pragmatic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "hardheaded":
     balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded,
     case-hardened, dogged, dogmatic, down-to-earth, earthy, fanatic,
     hard, hard-boiled, headstrong, hoaxproof, intolerant,
     matter-of-fact, mulish, not born yesterday, obstinate, opinionated,
     overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, positivistic,
     practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, rational, realist,
     realistic, reasonable, restive, sane, scientific, scientistic,
     secular, self-willed, sensible, set, sober, sober-minded,
     sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, stiff-necked,
     straight-thinking, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky,
     sullen, tenacious, tough-minded, uncooperative, uncullible,
     undeceivable, undeludable, undupable, unfoolable, ungullible,
     unhoaxable, unideal, unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic,
     unseduceable, unsentimental, willful, wise, worldly