The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MULISH , but the solution may also be BALKY which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in LA Times).
Stubborn crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MULISH | 15 % | 6 |
| ORNERY | 12 % | 6 |
| BALKY | 8 % | 5 |
| ADAMANT | 8 % | 7 |
| DOGGED | 6 % | 6 |
| SET | 6 % | 3 |
| HARDHEADED | 6 % | 10 |
| TENACIOUS | 5 % | 9 |
| CUSSED | 3 % | 6 |
| PIGHEADED | 3 % | 9 |
| BULLHEADED | 3 % | 10 |
| OBDURATE | 3 % | 8 |
| MULEY | 3 % | 5 |
| HEADSTRONG | 3 % | 10 |
| HARDNOSED | 3 % | 9 |
| RENITENT | 2 % | 8 |
| MULEHEADED | 2 % | 10 |
| UNREGENERATED | 2 % | 13 |
| HEADED | 2 % | 6 |
| OBSTINATE | 2 % | 9 |
| HARDBITTEN | 2 % | 10 |
| HARDSET | 2 % | 7 |
| STONEWALL | 2 % | 9 |
| STIFFNECKED | 2 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stubborn
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mulish
- obstinate
- refractory
- dogged
- pertinacious
- bullheaded
- hardheaded
- tenacious
- strong-willed
- strong-minded
- hard
- difficult
Crossword Answer definitions
MULISH adjective- Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result MULISH
More clues leading to the result ORNERY
- Mean and nasty
- Not exactly agreeable
- Combative
- Cantankerous
- Games magazine's "The World's Most ___ Crossword"
- Ill-natured
- Curmudgeonlike
- Challenging or cruel
- Mean or stubborn
- Not at all nice
More clues leading to the result BALKY
- Pigheaded
- Obstinate
- Stubborn
- Ornery
- Contrary
- Mulish.
- Contrary.
- Recalcitrant
- Obstinate, as a mule
- Like a stubborn mule
More clues leading to the result ADAMANT
- Hard-hearted
- Rigid
- Uncompromising
- Stubborn
- Unbudging
- Unwilling to budge
- "Goody Two Shoes" singer
- Inflexible
- Utterly unyielding
- Unyielding
More clues leading to the result DOGGED
- Stubborn
- Totally tenacious
- Determined
- Tenacious
- Hounded
- Obstinately determined.
- Shadowed.
- Obstinate
- Tailed relentlessly
- Unrelenting
More clues leading to the result SET
- Challenging card game
- Complete group
- Congeal
- Gel
- Get firm
- Jet follower
- Kind of point or shot
- Play opener
- Salon job
- Solidify
More clues leading to the result HARDHEADED
More clues leading to the result TENACIOUS
More clues leading to the result CUSSED
- Talked a blue streak?
- Perverse, informally
- Stubborn
- Swore
- Used "colorful" language
- Shouted oaths at
- Said "@#$%^!"
- Said a swearword
- Cantankerous
- Uttered bad words
More clues leading to the result PIGHEADED
- Obstinate
- Utterly obstinate
- Overly stubborn
- Topped like a Poland __China?
- Tough to budge
- Obstinate, and what the other four longest puzzle answers are?
- Stubborn
- Obstinate.
- Stubborn.
More clues leading to the result BULLHEADED
- Stubborn
- Ornery
- Very stubborn
- Obstinate.
- Obstinate
- Beware of that stockbroker: He's ___
- The bovine took off!
More clues leading to the result OBDURATE
- Hardhearted
- Inflexible
- Unyielding
- Stubborn as a mule
- Intractable
- Stubborn
- Deaf to entreaty.
- Impervious to appeal.
- Unyielding.
- Hardhearted.
More clues leading to the result MULEY
More clues leading to the result HEADSTRONG
More clues leading to the result HARDNOSED
- Extremely inflexible
- Unsentimentally practical
- Intractable
- Tough and unsentimental
- Stubborn
- Tough
- Unyielding
- Obdurate
- Inflexible
- Unsentimental
More clues leading to the result RENITENT
More clues leading to the result MULEHEADED
More clues leading to the result UNREGENERATED
More clues leading to the result HEADED
- Pointy-__ (intellectual)
- Presided over
- Made tracks (toward)
- Led
- Stubborn
- Led.
- Acted as leader.
- Directed.
- Took charge.
- Follower of red or hot
More clues leading to the result OBSTINATE
More clues leading to the result HARDBITTEN
More clues leading to the result HARDSET
More clues leading to the result STONEWALL
- Be an obstructionist
- Nickname of Gen. Thomas Jackson
- Chain-link fence alternative
- Be uncooperative
- Famous sobriquet.
- Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
- General's epithet.
- Epithet for a general.
- Confederate general's nickname.
- General's sobriquet.