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