With stubborn, sustained determination despite difficulty or delay.
Reach for it when praising the manner of continuing when repeated obstacles could reasonably discourage effort
The advocates worked doggedly until every unsafe crossing had been mapped.
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warm
Fits when loyalty or principle keeps the effort steady
Careful Steadfastly suggests moral constancy and is too grand for routine troubleshooting.
warm
Fits when extraordinary energy appears never to diminish
Careful Tirelessly exaggerates if the person needed rest but kept returning to the work.
professional
Fits when repeated or continuous effort is the main fact
Careful Persistently can describe an unwanted nuisance and lacks the admiration often carried by doggedly.
professional
relentlessly
Fits when effort proceeds without pause or easing
Careful Relentlessly can sound punishing or inhumane, while doggedly allows patience and recovery.
formal
Fits when firmness of decision matters more than duration
Careful Resolutely can describe one brave moment without the long grind implied by doggedly.
formal
Fits when someone holds firmly to a goal through active resistance
Careful Tenaciously sounds elevated and can imply refusal to release a position that should change.
work doggedly
The historians worked doggedly to restore the names in the damaged ledger.
pursue doggedly
Residents pursued doggedly the safer route promised in the original plan.
continue doggedly
She continued doggedly through each round of corrections.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Vealhurl, Southern England accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Updated
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