Mulish

What do we mean by mulish?

Extremely or irrationally stubborn and intractable. synonym: obstinate. adjective

Resembling a mule. adjective

Like a mule; having the characteristics of a mule; sullen; stubborn; also, of a hybrid character.

Like a mule; sullen; stubborn. adjective

Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable adjective

Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack adjective

Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable

Resembling or likened to a mule in being stubborn. "a mulish expression" Similar: obstinate stubborn stubborn as a mule pig-headed recalcitrant refractory intransigent intractable unyielding inflexible unbending bull-headed stiff-necked Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to mulish:
mulish, kulish.

Words that rhyme with mulish:
foolish, ghoulish, coolish, kulish, grew lush.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective mulish:
obstinacy, look, expression, stubbornness, vagary, production, ears, man, mutineer, face, resistance, mouth, way, silence, streak, determination, nature, temper, set, heart, disposition, will, refusal, insistence, stupidity, being, imperturbability, attitude, malice, flower, spirit, fellow, pride, ignorance, temperament, kind, stance, child, persistence, glee, reader, folly, mind, line, fashion, angle, donkeys, perfection, vindictiveness, elements, conservatism, sort, traits, unwillingness, skipper, race, lines, lamentations, sullenness, antagonism, opposition, head, craft, defiance, iteration, display, toad, indifference, crowd, carranza, mood, glint, behaviour, headedness, brain, disgust, willfulness, pertinacity, minds, vulgarity, perverseness, perseverance, frown, hostility, mule, boy, complacency, enigma, cast, contempt, moods.

Words that sound like mulish:
mulish, mulet, mula, mewling, muli, mulo, mellish, muley, moulage, muleys, mulay, mulan, mules, mewls, mule, mileage, mueller, muel, millage, mewl, mullett, milledge, kulish, milosh, mewled, mule deer, milosz, mewler, mulishly, hewlett, huish, hulett, hewish, moolah, moola, milage, mua, muha, musha, myology, muut, museless, muela, myalgia, mcleish, macleish, malice, militia, mallet, muses, mutely, malet, smallish, millis, mallett, melis, mewing, muniz, munir, mullis, mucilage, munis, mole hill, muj, mellis, mollet, gulash, millett, milit, mukesh, mulino, muge, hulas, my wish, maish, mooli, mouli, musit, milicia, melisse, majlis, mellett, milice, milis, mollis, mule kick, moonish, mill hill, mollett, molis, mule fat, mulesing, mutule, knowledge, hellish, hughley, meola, huling, hulin, hulick.