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Dogged vs Headstrong - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between dogged and headstrong

is that dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast while headstrong is determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.

As a verb dogged

is past tense of dog.

dogged

English

Etymology 1

From the verb to dog .

Verb

(head)
  • (dog)
  • * 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
    • At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), characteristics similar to that of a dog .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stubbornly persevering, steadfast
  • * 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
    • Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
    • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
    Synonyms
    * committed, determined, persistent, steadfast * See also
    Derived terms
    * doggedly * doggedness

    headstrong

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
    • He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * headstrongly * headstrongness