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Pertinacious vs Headstrong - What's the difference?

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Pertinacious is a related term of headstrong.


As adjectives the difference between pertinacious and headstrong

is that pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose while headstrong is determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.

pertinacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
  • * 1884', , "The Path of Duty" in ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' ' 2 (15): 240–256.
  • *:He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son.
  • Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * pertinaciousness * pertinacity

    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