hardheaded   (Sound)

The adj hardheaded has 2 senses

• hardheaded, mulish -- (unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack)


• hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic -- (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")