hard-headed Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- wily
- clear-eyed
- sagacious
- knowing
- cunning
- canny
- clear-sighted
- sharp
- experienced
- intelligent
- slick
- quick
- savvy
- veteran
- keen
- clever
- hard-boiled
- heady
- sharp-witted
- brilliant
- perceptive
- bright
- perspicacious
- wise
Weak:
Strongest:
- ingenuous
- gullible
- innocent
- unwise
- na-ve
- artless
- gullible
- naive
- artless
- unwise
- na-ve
- guileless
- naive
- unknowing
- innocent
- ingenuous
- unknowing
- guileless
Strong:
- unintelligent
- weak-minded
- thoughtless
- stupid
- feebleminded
- exploitable
- foolish
- idiotic
- dumb
- slow
- imbecile
- foolish
- dopey
- silly
- brain-dead
- uninformed
- unperceptive
- dopey
- idiotic
- thickheaded
- brainless
- brain-dead
- stupid
- uninformed
- exploitable
- dense
- moronic
- dense
- ignorant
- dumb
- slow
- gullable
- ignorant
- moronic
- gullable
- unintelligent
- weak-minded
- obtuse
- dull
- obtuse
- dull
- imbecile
- silly
- simple
- thickheaded
- unperceptive
- thoughtless
- simple
- feebleminded
- brainless
Weak:
- half-witted
- lamebrain
- birdbrained
- airheaded
- lunkheaded
- gormless
- lamebrain
- lamebrained
- knuckleheaded
- slow-witted
- dopy
- witless
- imbecilic
- idiotical
- imbecilic
- slow-witted
- dim-witted
- lamebrained
- thick-witted
- dopy
- softheaded
- empty-headed
- airheaded
- gormless
- witless
- idiotical
- thick-witted
- empty-headed
- birdbrained
- dim-witted
- half-witted
- softheaded
- lunkheaded
- knuckleheaded
hard-headed Meaning
Webster
hard-headed (a.)
Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
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.
FAQs About the word hard-headed
Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
shrewd, astute,smart, wily, clear-eyed, sagacious, knowing, cunning, canny, clear-sighted
ingenuous, gullible, innocent, unwise, naïve, artless, gullible, naive, artless, unwise
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.
