Dogged

Verb
dogged


 * 1) * 1903: Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh
 * At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
 * At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.

Adjective

 * 1) Stubbornly persevering, steadfast.
 * 2) * 1900: Jack London, The Son of the Wolf
 * Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
 * 1) * 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
 * It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Synonyms

 * committed
 * determined
 * persistent
 * steadfast
 * See also Thesaurus:obstinate

Derived terms

 * doggedly
 * doggedness

Adverbs for Dogged
stubbornly; obstinately; boundlessly; excessively; resolutely; sullenly; morosely; pertinaciously; glumly; silently; irresistibly; obdurately; implacably; inveterately; bravely; heroically; endlessly; surprisingly; unexpectedly; mulishly; perversely; blindly; intractably; fanatically; wilfully; intrepidly; enterprisingly; fiercely; churlishly; grouchily; moodily; crustily; grumpishly.

Thesaurus
adamant, assiduous, badgered, baited, balking, balky, bedeviled, beset, bigoted, bugged, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, bullyragged, case-hardened, chivied, constant, continuing, deviled, diligent, dogmatic, enduring, faithful, fanatic, fretted, harassed, hardheaded, harried, haunted, headstrong, heckled, hectored, hounded, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, inexorable, insistent, intolerant, invincible, lasting, loyal, mulish, needled, never-tiring, nipped at, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, patient, patient as Job, permanent, persecuted, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pestered, picked on, pigheaded, plagued, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, ragged, rapt, relentless, resolute, restive, rigid, sedulous, self-willed, set, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, teased, tenacious, tireless, tormented, unabating, unbending, unconquerable, uncooperative, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unregenerate, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vexed, weariless, willful, worried, worried sick, worried stiff

Etymology 1
From the verb to dog.

Etymology 2
From, characteristics similar to that of a dog.

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: твърдоглав


 * Finnish: sinnikäs, hellittämätön, peräänantamaton