Intransigent vs Dogged - What's the difference?
intransigent | dogged |
Unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; irreconcilable; stubborn.
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
As adjectives the difference between intransigent and dogged
is that intransigent is unwilling to compromise or moderate a position; unreasonable; irreconcilable; stubborn while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.As a verb dogged is
(dog).intransigent
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Alternative forms
* intransigeantAdjective
(en adjective)- Don't waste your time trying to change his mind, he's completely intransigent .
Synonyms
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* *dogged
English
Etymology 1
From the verb to dog .Verb
(head)- 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)- 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.
- 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.
