Usually means: Stubbornly refusing to change opinion.
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  1. mulish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mulish: Merriam-Webster
  3. mulish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mulish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mulish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mulish: Vocabulary.com
  7. mulish: Wordnik
  8. mulish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mulish: Wiktionary
  10. mulish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mulish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mulish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mulish, mulish: Dictionary.com
  14. Mulish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mulish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mulish: Rhymezone
  17. Mulish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mulish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. mulish: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mulish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mulish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mulish: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable

Similar:
hardheaded, stubborn, mulelike, stubborn as a mule, camelish, muttish, muddlesome, mulchy, muddish, sullen, more...

Opposite:
compliant, flexible, adaptable, cooperative

Types:
obstinate, stubborn, headstrong, unyielding, recalcitrant, more...

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Similar:
hardheaded, stubborn, mulelike, stubborn as a mule, camelish, muttish, muddlesome, mulchy, muddish, sullen, more...

Opposite:
compliant, flexible, adaptable, cooperative

Types:
obstinate, stubborn, headstrong, unyielding, recalcitrant, more...



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