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resolvedly
adverb as in obstinately
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bullheadedly
- contumaciously
- determinedly
- doggedly
- firmly
- fixedly
- headstrongly
- indomitably
- inflexibly
- intractably
- opinionatedly
- persistently
- pertinaciously
- pigheadedly
- recalcitrantly
- resistantly
- resolutely
- staunchly
- steadfastly
- stolidly
- tenaciously
- unamenably
- unflinchingly
- unimpressibly
- unreasonably
- unreasoningly
- unrelentingly
- unwaveringly
- unyieldingly
- willfully
Example Sentences
He said the military would “firmly and resolvedly safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests.”
Yet, if facts suggest that the policies do work, the same person might stay resolvedly against the argument based on principle.
At last resolvedly he resumed his journey to the college and the poets.
The Browning who masks as Shakespeare in At the Mermaid disclaims the ambition of heading a poetical faction, condemns the Byronic Welt-schmerz, and announces his resolvedly cheerful acceptance of life.
Note also the painter's freehand working of the complex mouldings of the table—also resolvedly oblong, not square; see central flower.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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