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