Usually means: Stubbornly unwilling to change opinion.
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  1. hard-headed, hard-headed: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Hard-headed, hard-headed: Wordnik
  3. hard-headed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. hard-headed: Wiktionary
  5. Hard-headed, hard-headed: Dictionary.com
  6. Hard-headed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. hard-headed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Hard-headed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. hard-headed: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hard-headed: ESL Idiom Page
  11. hard-headed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of hardheaded [Stubborn; wilful.]

Similar:
bull-headed, bull headed, baldheaded, hardbitten, hot-headed, hard-handed, hard handed, die-hard, hardnosed, rock-hard, more...

Opposite:
open-minded, flexible, adaptable, receptive

Types:
stubborn, obstinate, stoic, determined, resolute, tenacious, persistent, persevering, relentless, more...



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Similar:
bull-headed, bull headed, baldheaded, hardbitten, hot-headed, hard-handed, hard handed, die-hard, hardnosed, rock-hard, more...

Opposite:
open-minded, flexible, adaptable, receptive

Types:
stubborn, obstinate, stoic, determined, resolute, tenacious, persistent, persevering, relentless, more...



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