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Grammar : Adj
Spell : hahrd-hed-id
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˈhɛd ɪd



Definition of hard-headed

Origin :
  • also hardheaded, 1580s, "stubborn," from hardhead "dull person" (1510s), from hard + head (n.). Meaning "practical" is attested from 1779.
  • As in unrelenting : adj merciless
  • As in common-sense : adj reasonable
Example sentences :
  • He was good-natured, plucky in a hard-headed British way, and gentlemanly.
  • Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • Of course you would, being a sensible, hard-headed American workingman.
  • Extract from : « The Common Sense of Socialism » by John Spargo
  • He was a sailor, and as hard-headed and practical a man as it has ever been my lot to meet.
  • Extract from : « Seen and Unseen » by E. Katharine Bates
  • Haven't you any hard-headed topers who are famous in the neighborhood?
  • Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke
  • You yourself have called me too hard-headed, too material for an artist.
  • Extract from : « The Master Mummer » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • My father's so hard-headed when he gets his mind set—he's making me do it.
  • Extract from : « Coniston, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • And that means he is hard-headed and has a good opinion of himself.
  • Extract from : « Justin Wingate, Ranchman » by John H. Whitson
  • He desires to show that he too is no theorist, that he also can be hard-headed and practical.
  • Extract from : « The Fruits of Victory » by Norman Angell
  • I can also add my testimony that she was a hard-headed woman.
  • Extract from : « The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797 » by M. E. James
  • Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a hard-headed British jury.
  • Extract from : « Adventures of Sherlock Holmes » by A. Conan Doyle

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