doggedly UK /ˈdɒɡɪdli/US /ˈdɔɡədli/ adverb2 •In a way that is stubbornly persistent.I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly. — 1820 •(old-fashioned) sullenly, gloomily formsmore doggedly · most doggedly