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