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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOGGED, pp.
1. Pursued closely; urged frequently and importunately.
2. a. Sullen; sour; morose; surly; severe.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1653 marked by stubborn determination <a dogged competitor> <dogged devotion> Synonyms: see obstinate • doggedly adverb • doggedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. tenacious; grimly persistent. Phrases and idioms: it's dogged as does it colloq. persistence succeeds. Derivatives: doggedly adv. doggedness n. Etymology: ME f. DOG + -ED(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dog Dog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dogging.] To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. -- Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. --Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. -- South.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dogged Dog"ged, a. [Fron. Dog.] 1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. -- Sir W. Scott. 2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone's actions as dogged, you mean that they are determined to continue with something even if it becomes difficult or dangerous. They have gained respect through sheer dogged determination. = resolute, persistent ADJ: ADJ n • doggedly She would fight doggedly for her rights as the children's mother. ADV: usu ADV with v • doggedness Most of my accomplishments came as the result of sheer doggedness.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Sullen, sour, morose, churlish, growling, surly, snarling, snappish. 2. Stubborn, obstinate, wilful, mulish, inflexible, pertinacious, unyielding, headstrong, intractable, impracticable, cantankerous, perversely resolute.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Surly.

Moby 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