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