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say it: dawgd
dogged is an adjective meaning "stubbornly unyielding". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
“men tenacious of opinion”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dogged come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.