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
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