hardheaded \hard"head`ed\, hard-headed \hard"-head`ed\, a.
Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd; practical and
pragmatic. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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