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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Extremely or irrationally stubborn; headstrong. synonym: obstinate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a blunt, thick, or massive head.
  • Having a head like that of a bull.
  • Hence Obstinate; blunderingly aggressive; stupid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective unreasonably stubborn.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective obstinate and stupid

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