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