mulish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: mul=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

mulish, a. 

 Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mulish, adj.
1 like a mule.
2 stubborn.

Derivative

mulishly adv. mulishness n.

THESAURUS

mulish

asinine, balking, balky, bigoted, bovid, bovine, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, caprid, caprine, case-hardened, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, dogged, dogmatic, equestrian, equine, fanatic, fixed, goatish, goatlike, hardheaded, headstrong, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, intolerant, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, ovine, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, restive, ruminant, self-willed, set, sheepish, sheeplike, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, swinish, tenacious, uncooperative, ungovernable, ungulate, unregenerate, unruly, willful, wrongheaded

ROGET THESAURUS

mulish

Obstinacy

N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.