inexorable
- adamant
- adamantine
- bound
- bound and determined
- compulsory
- dead set on
- dogged
- hard
- harsh
- hell bent on
- immobile
- immovable
- implacable
- ineluctable
- inescapable
- inflexible
- ironclad
- like death and taxes
- locked in
- mean business
- merciless
- necessary
- no going back
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- remorseless
- resolute
- rigid
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- stubborn
- unappeasable
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unmovable
- unrelenting
- unyielding
inflexible
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- iron
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- stand one's ground
- staunch
- steadfast
- steely
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
insistent
more constant
obdurate
- adamant
- bullhead
- callous
- cold fish
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hanging tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- heartless
- immovable
- implacable
- indurate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron
- mean
- mulish
- obstinate
- perverse
- relentless
- rigid
- set in stone
- stiff-necked
- thick-skinned
- tough
- tough nut to crack
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
obsessed
- bedeviled
- beset
- bewitched
- captivated
- controlled
- dogged
- dominated
- eat sleep and breathe
- engrossed
- fiendish
- fixated
- gripped
- harassed
- haunted
- have on the brain
- held
- hooked
- hung up on
- immersed in
- infatuated
- into
- overpowered
- plagued
- possessed
- preoccupied
- prepossessed
- really into
- seized
- taken over
- tied up
- tormented
- troubled
- turned on
- up to here in
- wound up with
- wrapped up in
obstinate
- adamant
- cantankerous
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- convinced
- dead set on
- dogged
- dogmatic
- firm
- hard
- hardened
- headstrong
- heady
- immovable
- indomitable
- inflexible
- intractable
- intransigent
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- opinionative
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- resolved
- restive
- self-willed
- steadfast
- strong-minded
- tenacious
- unalterable
- unflinching
- unmanageable
- unyielding
- willful
Word Origin & History
"having the qualities of a dog" (mostly in a negative sense), c.1300, from dog (n.). Meaning "persistent" is from 1779. Hence doggedly (late 14c.), "cruelly, maliciously;" later "with a dog's persistence" (1773). Related: Doggedness.
Example Sentences fordogged
"Ye-es, sir," returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner.
As it was, she drove him to a dogged pursuit of the man he was convinced was the real culprit.
"The Signorina is not for him," repeated Gaspare, with a dogged emphasis.
Not dogged, trapped, made desperate by fate, but cheerfully and of his own free will.
It made a dogged, desperate resistance and was almost unbeatable.
"There's nothing like a dogged persistence," said the Russian.
I remember with wonder the sort of dogged fierceness I displayed.
Ten years of it—ten years of dogged work and unrelieved failure.
He was possessed by the dogged desire to establish the truth of his story.
Roger, with dogged thoroughness, followed the trail suggested by Dick.