"stiff-necked" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more stiff-necked [comparative], most stiff-necked [superlative]
Etymology: From stiff + neck + -ed. (figurative): Calque of Hebrew קשה ערף (Exodus 33). A biblical term similar to Swedish styvnackad, Ancient Greek σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos), Russian жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj), German halsstarrig etc. Etymology templates: {{af|en|stiff|neck|-ed}} stiff + neck + -ed, {{s|figurative}} (figurative):, {{clq|en|he|קשה ערף}} Calque of Hebrew קשה ערף, {{cog|sv|styvnackad}} Swedish styvnackad, {{cog|grc|σκληροτράχηλος}} Ancient Greek σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos), {{cog|ru|жестоковыйный}} Russian жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj), {{cog|de|halsstarrig}} German halsstarrig Head templates: {{en-adj}} stiff-necked (comparative more stiff-necked, superlative most stiff-necked)
  1. (literally) Having a stiff neck; suffering from torticollis Tags: literally
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  2. (figuratively) Stubborn and arrogant. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Personality Translations (stubborn): σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos) (Ancient Greek), твърдоглав (tvǎrdoglav) (Bulgarian), hardnekkig (Dutch), malmolnuka (Esperanto), steifnackig (German), hartnäckig (German), קְשֵׁה עֹרֶף (qshe 'óref) (Hebrew), cruamhuineálach (Irish), contumax (Latin), stivnakket (Norwegian Bokmål), hardnakket (Norwegian Bokmål), urokkelig (Norwegian Bokmål), halsstarrig (Norwegian Bokmål), hardnakka (Norwegian Nynorsk), stivnakka (Norwegian Nynorsk), vrangviljug (Norwegian Nynorsk), упря́мый (uprjámyj) (Russian), жестоковы́йный (žestokovýjnyj) [rare] [biblical, religion, lifestyle] (Russian), rag-mhuinealach (Scottish Gaelic), styvnackad (Swedish), hårdnackad (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-stiff-necked-en-adj-0xZHbwge Disambiguation of Personality: 37 63 Disambiguation of 'stubborn': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: stiff-neckedly, stiff-neckedness

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.