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