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adj. unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

practical, pragmatic, down-to-earth, hard-nosed

adj. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"

obstinate, obdurate, perverse, unrepentant, cussed

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

willful, wilful, froward, headstrong, self-willed

adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

refractory, recalcitrant

adj. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

uncontrollable, unmanageable

adj. difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain"

unmanageable

adj. difficult to manage or control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

earthy

adj. not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"

unaffected

adj. undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"

sharp, astute, shrewd

adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

unromantic

adj. neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance

cross-grained, balky, contrarious

adj. difficult to deal with

bloody-minded, cantankerous

adj. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator

bolshy, stroppy

adj. obstreperous

bullet-headed, bullheaded, pigheaded

adj. obstinate and stupid

bulldog, tenacious, unyielding, dour, dogged, pertinacious

adj. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

obstreperous

adj. noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"

stiff-necked

adj. haughtily stubborn; "a stiff-necked old Boston Brahmin"

strong-minded, strong-willed

adj. having a determined will

pictorial, lifelike, vivid, graphic

adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"

living

adj. true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"

real

adj. coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson

true-to-life, true to life

adj. representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are; "the novel about ghetto life was true to life"; "true-to-life duck decoys"

virtual, practical

adj. being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"

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