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doggedly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɔɡədli/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdɒɡɪdli/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
   • I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly. 1820, Washington Irving, “The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood”, in The Crayon Papers:
   • She was married to someone. He was doggedly determined he would get her. 1983, Paul Simon, Train in the Distance:
   • 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. 2024 December 11, Richard Wilcock, “Strategy offers a chance to reset local transport planning”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 10:
   • I continued to pound along doggedly. I was grimly resolute. 1906, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in Love Among the Chickens:
   • Unemployment hovered doggedly near 10%. 2010 December 9, Ishaan Tharoor, “Obama's Quagmire II: The Economy”, in Time, retrieved 28 Apr 2014:
2. (dated) sullenly, gloomily
   • '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'.] 1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.:

Forms

Translations (12)

es tercamente (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · gd gu leanailteach (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · fi periksiantamattomasti (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · fi sinnikkäästi (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · sv enträget (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · el επίμονα (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · sv envetet (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · es obstinadamente (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · fi hellittämättömästi (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · sv envist (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · sv ihärdigt (in a way that is stubbornly persistent) · es tenazmente (in a way that is stubbornly persistent)