Dogged

Definition: Dogged

Dogged

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dogged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Dogged

Courage

Strong-minded, hardy, doughty; firm; (stable); determined; (resolved); dogged, indomitable; (persevering) a.

Obstinacy

Noun: obstinateness; Adjective: obstinacy, tenacity; cussedness; perseverance; a; immovability; old school; inflexibility; (hardness); obduracy, obduration; dogged resolution; resolution; ruling passion; blind side.

Dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.

Sullenness

Dogged; (stubborn).

Crosswords: Dogged

Police Dogged (1956)

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Books

• Dogged Persistence (reference)

• Dogged Pursuit (Maison Ikkoku, Volume 10) (reference)

• Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate (Classics of Golf) (reference)

• Dogged... and Determined (reference)

• Pro Football Hall of Fame Presents Their Deeds and Dogged Faith (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hair of the Bitch that Dogged You [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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For six months I dogged that old German's steps. Credit: Library of Congress.

One of 12 Negro high school students, newly integrated at Clinton High School, is dogged by a crowd of hecklers [...]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Such resistances are dogged.

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Expressions using "dogged": be dogged by smth. ♦ dogged by bad luck ♦ dogged resolution. Additional references.

Ending with "dogged": hot-dogged, injury-dogged.

Albanian

kokëfortë (balky, bullheaded, contrary, cussed, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, impracticable, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, stickler, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, urgent, wayward, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), këmbëngulës (assiduous, difficult, emphatic, exacting, insistent, lingering, patient, persevering, persistent, pressing, rebellious, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding, up and coming, urgent), i paepur (adamant, cast iron, firm, hard bitten, hard boiled, implacable, indefatigable, indomitable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, rigid, stiff, tough, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, sturdy, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), твърдоглав (contumacious, die hard, piggish, pigheaded, self-opinionated, uncompliant, wrongheaded), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering). (various references)

Chinese 

顽固 (Bigotry, hardheaded, headstrong). (various references)

Czech

zarputilý (dour, grim, grimly determined, wrongheaded, wrong-headed), tvrdošíjný (obstinate, pertinacious, restive, strenuous), houževnatý (persistent, resilient, stiff, strenuous, tenacious, tough, wiry). (various references)

Farsi 

یکدنده (Adamant), لجوج (Dour, Headstrong, Intractable, Obdurate, Obstinate, Obstreperous, Pertinacious, Set, Stickler, Stubborn, Stuffy), ترشرو (Acid, Gruff, Grumpy, Moody, Morose, Petulant, Rusty, Sulky, Sullen), سخت (Adjacent, Chronic, Crusty, Demanding, Difficult, Dour, Eburnated, Exquisite, Grave, Grim, Rigid, Rigorous, Rocky, Rugged, Serious, Severe, Sore, Steely, Stratify, Stringent, Strong, Troublesome), سرسخت (Barnacle, Bullheaded, Diehard, Dour, Headstrong, Intransigent, Inveterate, Obstinate, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Remorseless, Stark, Stubborn, Tenacious). (various references)

Finnish

sitkeä (persevering, sticky, tenacious, tough, viscous). (various references)

French

déterminé, obstiné. (various references)

German

verbissen (determined, grim, grimly, obstinate, rugged). (various references)

Greek 

πεισματάρησ (bull-headed, contrary, cussed, mulish, obstinate, ornery, spiteful, stubborn, wilful). (various references)

Hebrew 

עקשן (adamant, bone head, contrary, headstrong, obdurate, obstinate, pertinacious, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, stubborn). (various references)

Hungarian

makacs (bullet-headed, bull-headed, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, dour, froward, hard bitten, hard set, headstrong, hide-bound, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff, stiff necked, stubborn, stuffed shirt, tough, wrong-headed), kitartó (assiduous, constant, insistent, loyal, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, sustained, tough, unwavering). (various references)

Indonesian

bandel (obstinate, stubborn, undisciplined). (various references)

Italian

accanito (acrimonious, bitter, exacerbates, hard, hardy, obstinate, pitiless, rancorous, stand up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �強 (stubborn, tenacious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

が�"きょう (glasses, ringleader, spectacles, stubborn, tenacious). (various references)

Manx

shassooagh (abiding, constant, firm, insistent, invariable, persistent, resolute, stable, steadfast), reen (hard, hard-and-fast, hard-boiled, hardy, rigid, sinewy, stark, stiff, stringy, thick-skinned, thick-skinned of person), kione-daaney (bullet-headed, dour, mulish, opinionated, pertinaceous, pigheaded, recalcitrant, self-opinionated, self-willed, wayward). (various references)

Norwegian

trassig (defiant), seig. (various references)

Pig Latin

oggedday

Portuguese

persistente (evergreen, insistent, lasting, obstinate, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, stiff-necked, tenacious). (various references)

Romanian

stãruitor (arduous, assiduous, constant, firm, instant, instantly, patient, persevering, perseveringly, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pleading, pressing, pushing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, tenacious, trusty, urgent, zealous), perseverent (abiding, patient, persevering, perseveringly, seductive, sedulous, tenacious, unremitting, unwearied, urgent), încãpãţânat (awkward, contumacious, die hard, dour, hard, headstrong, inveterate, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, royalist, self willed, stolid, stubborn, tough, unwilling, wilful). (various references)

Russian 

упорный (contumacious, die hard, hardbitten, indomitable, obstinate, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uporan (aggressive, insistent, last ditch, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, stubborn, tenacious, unremitting), istrajan (assiduous, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unremitting). (various references)

Spanish

tercoso, terco (contrary, cussed, dour, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pigheaded, self-opinionated, stiff necked, stolid, stout, stubborn, tough), obstinado (balky, bullheaded, hard-headed, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, self willed, steadfast, stout, stubborn). (various references)

Swedish

seg (gluey, leathery, ropy, rubbery, tough, viscous, wiry), ihärdig (assiduous, diligent, persevering, persistent, sedulous, tenacious), envis (be obstinate, contrary, cussed, dour, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded), enveten (contrary, cussed, dour, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Thai

�"ื้อรั้น (dyed-in-the-wool, rebel, stiff-necked, stubborn). (various references)

Turkish

kararlı (bent, decided, decisive, determined, firm, flat-footed, hard core, high pressure, immovable, inflexible, intent, professional, resolute, resolved, set, settled, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, undeterred, unfaltering), inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), azimli (Dauntless, dead-set on, decided, decisive, determined, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, high pressure, militant, peppy, persevering, pertinacious, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, sturdy, undeterred, zealous). (various references)

Ukrainian

упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), жахливо (almighty, appallingly, awfully, beastly, bitter, devilish, dreadfully, fearfully, ferociously, frightfully, grievously, horribly, lamentably, sadly, woefully), понурий (blue, chap-fallen, cheerless, dour, gloomy, morose, murky, overcast, somber, sombre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dai dẳng, rất (highly, immensely, mightily, mighty, thoroughly, thundering, very), lắm (clinking, ever, gey, highly, jolly, lousy, mighty, precious, preciously, very), lì lợm; ngoan cường, kiên trì, hết sức (all-fired, blooming, deadly, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, handle, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, jolly, mightily, mighty, out, precious, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco), gan lì (high-hearted, pertaincious), gan góc (gritty), cực kỳ (beastly, damned, deadly, frightfuly, mortally, most, parlous, ripping, thundering, whacking), bền bỉ (spartan, tireless). (various references)

Canis lupus f.familiaris, RM:chaun. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dogged": doggedly, doggedness, doggednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "dogged": bulldogged, hotdogged, watchdogged. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dogged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daged, dagged, dagget, degged, diggen, digget, diggety, dogel, dogen, D'oger, doget, dogey, dogga, dogge, doggel, doggen, dogges, Doggets, doggid, doggle, donged, d'orge, sogged. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dodge.

-2 letters: doge, eddo.

-3 letters: doe, dog, egg, ego, ged, god, odd, ode.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, go, od, oe.

+2 letters: defogged, doggedly, doggoned.

+3 letters: demagoged, disgorged, doglegged, gudgeoned, hotdogged.

+4 letters: bulldogged, demagogued, dingdonged, doggedness, doggoneder, hodgepodge, outdragged.

+5 letters: boondoggled, doggonedest, dogsledding, goddaughter, hodgepodges, watchdogged.

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