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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | determined, persistent |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bullheaded, firm, hanging tough, hard-nosed, hardheaded, indefatigable, inexorable, inflexible, insistent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, perseverant, perseverative, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, relentless, resolute, rigid, single-minded, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, tough nut, unbending, unflagging, unshakable, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, irresolute, undetermined, yielding |
| Main Entry: | determined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | driven, persistent |
| Synonyms: | bent, bent on, buckled down, constant, decided, decisive, dogged, earnest, firm, fixed, hard-as-nails, hardboiled, intent, mean business, obstinate, on ice, pat, persevering, purposeful, resolute, resolved, serious, set, set on, settled, single-minded, solid, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, unwavering |
| Antonyms: | flexible, hesitating, irresolute, vacillating, wavering, weak |
| Main Entry: | doctrinaire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dogmatic, opinionated |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigoted, bullheaded, dictative, dictatorial, dogged, fanatical, impractical, inflexible, insistent, magisterial, mulish, obstinate, one-sided, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, speculative, stiff-necked, stubborn, unrealistic |
| Antonyms: | amenable, flexible, manageable, obedient, submissive |
| Main Entry: | game |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brave, willing |
| Synonyms: | bold, courageous, dauntless, desirous, disposed, dogged, eager, fearless, gallant, hardy, heroic, inclined, interested, intrepid, nervy, persevering, persistent, plucky, prepared, ready, resolute, spirited, spunky, unafraid, unflinching, up for, valiant, valorous |
| Antonyms: | afraid, cautious, cowardly, disinclined, fearful, unprepared, unready, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, horrid, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, scowling, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, splenetic, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gritty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brave |
| Synonyms: | courageous, determined, dogged, game*, hardy, mettlesome, plucky, resolute, spirited, steadfast, tenacious, tough |
| Antonyms: | afraid, cowardly, spineless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | importunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding, insistent |
| Synonyms: | burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, disturbing, dogged, earnest, exigent, harassing, imperative, instant, overly solicitous, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, pressing, solicitous, troublesome, urgent |
| Antonyms: | relaxed, undemanding, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | incensed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry |
| Synonyms: | at end of one's rope, buffaloed, bugged, bummed out, burned up, dogged, enraged, exasperated, fuming, furious, hacked, hot and bothered, huffy, indignant, infuriated, irate, ireful, mad, maddened, miffed, on the warpath, peeved, riled, rousted, rubbed the wrong way, steamed up, up in arms, uptight*, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyous, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indefatigable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untiring |
| Synonyms: | active, assiduous, bound and determined, dead set on, determined, diligent, dogged, energetic, hell-bent, industrious, inexhaustible, ironclad, nose to grindstone, painstaking, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, relentless, sedulous, steadfast, stop at nothing, strenuous, tireless, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unremitting, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | fatigued, tired, weary |
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