stiff-necked

Significado (Inglês)

  1. (literally) Having a stiff neck; suffering from torticollis
  2. (figuratively) Stubborn and arrogant.

Conceitos

cabeça-dura
obstinado
teimoso
Sinônimos

stubborn
B2
obstinate
C2
tenacious
23k
tough
A2
refractory
dogged
32k
doggedly
do-or-die
froward
haughty
28k
inflexible
37k

insistent

intractable
intransigent
mulish
obdurate
obstinately
persevering
persistent
C2
pertinacious
pertinaciously
perverse
C2
recalcitrant
stubbornly
40k
contrarious
adamantine

strongheaded

besetting
bulldog
C2
bullheaded
confirmed
B2
Traduções

hartnäckig
obstiné
cocciuto
guindé
intransigeant
tenace
farouchement
opiniâtre
mordicus
obstinée
acharnée
tenace
testardo
persisto
halsstarrig
Etimologia (Inglês)

Cognato com sueco
styvnackad
Cognato com grego arcaico
σκληροτράχηλος
Cognato com russo
жестоковыйный
Cognato com alemão
alemão
halsstarrig
In summary

From stiff + neck + -ed. (figurative): Calque of Hebrew קשה ערף (Exodus 33). A biblical term similar to Swedish styvnackad, Ancient Greek σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos), Russian жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj), German halsstarrig etc.

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