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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

stubborn, stiff/formal, and proud in manner;

e.g. She is too stiff-necked to apologize for her mistakes.

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Similar Words

Adamant

Adamantine

Anal

Anal-retentive

Arrogant

Assumptive

Bullheaded

Bumptious

Cavalier

Ceremonious

Chesty

Condescending

Correct

Deaf

Decorous

Dogged

Hard

Hard-nosed

Haughty

Headstrong

Hell-bent

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

Highfalutin

Huffy

Immovable

Imperious

Implacable

Important

Inconvincible

Indocile

Inflexible

Intransigent

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Mulish

Nice

Obdurate

Obstinate

Opinionated

Overweening

Pat

Peremptory

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pigheaded

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Proper

Punctilious

Resistant

Retentive

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-flattering

Self-willed

Sniffy

Starchy

Stiff

Stilted

Stubborn

Supercilious

Superior

Toplofty

Unbending

Uncompromising

Unhesitating

Unpunished

Unrelenting

Unyielding

Uppity

Willful

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Opposite Words

Accepting

Acquiescent

Bashful

Compliant

Deferential

Demure

Diffident

Discourteous

Docile

Impolite

Improper

Indecorous

Introverted

Manageable

Meek

Mousy

Obedient

Overmodest

Passive

Persuadable

Placable

Quiet

Receptive

Reserved

Responsive

Retiring

Rude

Self-critical

Self-doubting

Sheepish

Shy

Slavish

Subdued

Submissive

Subservient

Temperate

Timid

Tractable

Unaggressive

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unmannerly

Unobtrusive

Well-behaved

Willing

Yielding

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Related Words

Anal-retentive

Authoritarian

Bombastic

Bossy

Braggart

Brash

Chivalrous

Civil

Cocky

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Courteous

Courtly

Determined

Disdainful

Dogged

Dominant

Domineering

Egocentric

Egotistical

Extroverted

Firm

Forward

Froward

Gallant

Genteel

Hard-line

Hard-shell

Headstrong

Hell-bent

Hidebound

Hubristic

Impertinent

Impudent

Inexorable

Insistent

Intractable

Iron

Magisterial

Narcissistic

Narrow-minded

Obsessive

Patient

Patronizing

Persistent

Pertinacious

Polished

Polite

Pontifical

Prideful

Proud

Recalcitrant

Refined

Refractory

Relentless

Rigid

Saucy

Self-applauding

Self-centered

Self-flattering

Self-satisfied

Severe

Single-minded

Smug

Snobbish

Snobby

Snooty

Sober

Solemn

Stately

Steadfast

Stern

Stouthearted

Strict

Stuck-up

Tenacious

Uncontrollable

Unflinching

Ungovernable

Uninhibited

Unmanageable

Unreserved

Unruly

Untoward

Vain

Vainglorious

Wayward

Willful

Wrongheaded

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