doggedly

1. 1.

   with obstinate determination

   “he pursued her doggedly”

   Synonymstenaciously

Questions about doggedly

What does doggedly mean?

doggedly means "with obstinate determination".

How many syllables are in doggedly?

doggedly has 3 syllables: dog-ged-ly. The stress falls on "dog". In IPA it is /ˈdɔɡədli/.

What is another word for doggedly?

Close synonyms include tenaciously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doggedly a common word?

doggedly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.