Wrongheaded vs Dogged - What's the difference?
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Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
Wrongheaded is a related term of dogged.
As adjectives the difference between wrongheaded and dogged
is that wrongheaded is having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.As a verb dogged is
(dog).wrongheaded
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Alternative forms
* wrong-headedAdjective
(en adjective)- He's not just wrong, but wrongheaded about raising the kids.
Derived terms
* wrongheadedly * wrongheadedness English words with consonant pseudo-digraphsdogged
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.