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
- clever
- bright
- sharp-witted
- slick
- canny
- quick
- perceptive
- veteran
- wily
- sharp
- brilliant
- heady
- perspicacious
- experienced
- clear-eyed
- knowing
- cunning
- clear-sighted
- sagacious
- intelligent
- wise
- savvy
- keen
Antonyms:
- gullable
- feebleminded
- foolish
- ignorant
- thickheaded
- unperceptive
- unperceptive
- obtuse
- moronic
- thoughtless
- slow
- unintelligent
- dull
- exploitable
- dumb
- feebleminded
- dopey
- uninformed
- weak-minded
- exploitable
- idiotic
- brainless
- simple
- uninformed
- dumb
- brain-dead
- ignorant
- simple
- idiotic
- dense
- dull
- thoughtless
- stupid
- imbecile
- obtuse
- stupid
- thickheaded
- gullable
- brainless
- silly
- dense
- foolish
- weak-minded
- imbecile
- slow
- unintelligent
- moronic
- brain-dead
- dopey
- silly
Synonyms:
- resourceful
- discriminating
- discriminative
- percipient
- alert
- insightful
- brainy
- tricky
- sharp-eyed
- calculating
- subtle
- cagey
- agile
- pawky
- apt
- dodgy
- sly
- sharp-sighted
- quick-witted
- cagy
- discerning
- foxy
- scheming
- guileful
- devious
- crafty
- ingenious
- nimble
- artful
- sapient
- sage
Antonyms:
- slow-witted
- slow-witted
- imbecilic
- dopy
- lamebrained
- knuckleheaded
- softheaded
- lunkheaded
- lamebrained
- thick-witted
- thick-witted
- airheaded
- gormless
- birdbrained
- witless
- half-witted
- empty-headed
- birdbrained
- dim-witted
- dopy
- knuckleheaded
- lamebrain
- imbecilic
- lamebrain
- idiotical
- dim-witted
- lunkheaded
- witless
- idiotical
- airheaded
- softheaded
- half-witted
- empty-headed
- gormless
FAQs About the word hard-headed
Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
shrewd, astute,smart, hard-boiled, clever, bright, sharp-witted, slick, canny, quick
naïve, guileless, guileless, naive, ingenuous,naive, ingenuous, unknowing, innocent, gullible
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.
