hard-nosed Antonyms
Strongest:
- flexible
- pliable
- submissive
- compliant
- responsive
- pliant
- docile
- yielding
- receptive
- pliable
- amenable
- obedient
- obedient
- agreeable
- receptive
- willing
- docile
- flexible
- acquiescent
- submissive
- yielding
- amenable
- complying
- tractable
- complying
- pliant
- responsive
- agreeable
- compliant
- tractable
- acquiescent
- willing
Strong:
- relenting
- temperate
- relenting
- manageable
- accepting
- reasonable
- placable
- manageable
- temperate
- accepting
- reasonable
- placable
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- obstinate
- unyielding
- wilful
- ossified
- persistent
- bullheaded
- unbending
- opinionated
- pat
- unrelenting
- immovable
- perverse
- adamantine
- pigheaded
- headstrong
- uncompromising
- hardheaded
- inflexible
- pertinacious
- hard
- obdurate
- intransigent
- strict
- obsessive
- tenacious
- dogged
- willful
- determined
- mulish
- implacable
- relentless
Weak:
- hard-shell
- recalcitrant
- invincible
- narrow-minded
- resolved
- stern
- demanding
- rigid
- uncooperative
- intractable
- unflinching
- indomitable
- self-opinionated
- unregenerate
- ungovernable
- confirmed
- wayward
- single-minded
- hard-shelled
- inveterate
- insubordinate
- hidebound
- self-willed
- mutinous
- insurgent
- stiff-necked
- set
- disobedient
- iron
- unmanageable
- inconvincible
- deaf-to-reason
- defiant
- unconquerable
- refractory
- exacting
- cantankerous
- severe
- unruly
- hard-line
- wrongheaded
- bloody-minded
- firm
- inexorable
- hell-bent
- contumacious
- cussed
- stouthearted
- anal-retentive
- contrary
Meaning of hard-nosed
hard-nosed (s)
guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
FAQs About the word hard-nosed
guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
hardened, steadfast,stubborn, adamant, obstinate, unyielding, wilful, ossified, persistent, bullheaded
flexible, pliable, submissive, compliant, responsive, pliant, docile, yielding, receptive, pliable
The hard-nosed detective pursued the elusive criminal with unwavering determination.
The company's hard-nosed CEO demanded nothing less than excellence from his employees.
The boxer's hard-nosed training regimen prepared him for the toughest fights.
The politician's hard-nosed negotiating skills helped him achieve his goals.
