doggedly
/ˈdɔɡədli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
Example Sentences
- "I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly."
- "I continued to pound along doggedly. I was grimly resolute."
- "She was married to someone. He was doggedly determined he would get her."
- "Unemployment hovered doggedly near 10%."
- "The announcement was made in Leeds - the largest city in Europe without a mass transit system. It's also a city which has been doggedly pressing (to little avail) for an integrated transport system for two decades."
- "'Nay,' said Dr Johnson, 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself DOGGEDLY to it.' [Footnote: This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily and in that sense alone it appears in Dr Johnson's Dictionary. I suppose he meant by it 'with an OBSTINATE RESOLUTION, similar to that of a sullen man'.]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɔɡədli/
- British English: /ˈdɒɡɪdli/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more doggedly (comparative)
most doggedly (superlative)