hard-headed Sentence Examples
- The horse was hard-headed, refusing to budge even with gentle coaxing.
- The stubborn child was hard-headed, making negotiations challenging.
- The professor's hard-headed approach to teaching stifled creative thinking.
- The CEO's hard-headedness led to a decline in employee morale.
- The team's hard-headed defenders made it difficult for the opposition to score.
- The old man was hard-headed about his beliefs, refusing to consider new perspectives.
- The hard-headed neighbor refused to cooperate with the community garden project.
- The hard-headed scientist clung to his hypothesis despite contradictory evidence.
- The hard-headed driver refused to follow the GPS, resulting in a lengthy detour.
- The hard-headed teenager refused to take responsibility for his actions.
hard-headed Meaning
Webster
hard-headed (a.)
Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
Synonyms & Antonyms of hard-headed
Synonyms:
- hard-boiled
- wise
- sagacious
- clever
- sharp-witted
- perceptive
- savvy
- perspicacious
- bright
- clear-sighted
- heady
- quick
- brilliant
- keen
- cunning
- slick
- canny
- sharp
- clear-eyed
- knowing
- veteran
- experienced
- wily
- intelligent
Antonyms:
- brain-dead
- unintelligent
- dull
- imbecile
- silly
- thoughtless
- stupid
- silly
- dopey
- thickheaded
- dumb
- moronic
- brainless
- ignorant
- exploitable
- ignorant
- unperceptive
- moronic
- brain-dead
- gullable
- uninformed
- idiotic
- gullable
- dense
- obtuse
- weak-minded
- weak-minded
- stupid
- imbecile
- slow
- idiotic
- thickheaded
- feebleminded
- slow
- dumb
- foolish
- uninformed
- unintelligent
- obtuse
- unperceptive
- foolish
- simple
- brainless
- dull
- exploitable
- simple
- dopey
- dense
- feebleminded
- thoughtless
Synonyms:
- tricky
- scheming
- percipient
- quick-witted
- artful
- sharp-sighted
- discriminating
- discerning
- dodgy
- alert
- sly
- foxy
- brainy
- apt
- sharp-eyed
- pawky
- resourceful
- devious
- subtle
- nimble
- sapient
- insightful
- cagy
- ingenious
- crafty
- discriminative
- calculating
- cagey
- sage
- agile
- guileful
Antonyms:
- knuckleheaded
- idiotical
- lamebrain
- empty-headed
- lamebrain
- lamebrained
- dim-witted
- dopy
- airheaded
- witless
- airheaded
- imbecilic
- softheaded
- lunkheaded
- softheaded
- dim-witted
- birdbrained
- dopy
- half-witted
- knuckleheaded
- idiotical
- birdbrained
- lunkheaded
- witless
- slow-witted
- slow-witted
- imbecilic
- gormless
- empty-headed
- gormless
- lamebrained
- thick-witted
- thick-witted
- half-witted
FAQs About the word hard-headed
Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
astute, shrewd,smart, hard-boiled, wise, sagacious, clever, sharp-witted, perceptive,savvy
naive, unknowing, unwise, naïve, unwise, gullible, ingenuous, gullible, innocent, artless
The horse was hard-headed, refusing to budge even with gentle coaxing.
The stubborn child was hard-headed, making negotiations challenging.
The professor's hard-headed approach to teaching stifled creative thinking.
The CEO's hard-headedness led to a decline in employee morale.
