hard-shell Antonyms
Strongest:
- amenable
- compliant
- pliant
- amenable
- flexible
- docile
- agreeable
- agreeable
- docile
- acquiescent
- obedient
- flexible
- complying
- pliant
- compliant
- pliable
- pliable
- acquiescent
- obedient
- complying
Strong:
- submissive
- manageable
- placable
- willing
- temperate
- receptive
- responsive
- tractable
- accepting
- receptive
- accepting
- responsive
- submissive
- reasonable
- placable
- willing
- yielding
- tractable
- manageable
- reasonable
- yielding
- temperate
Weak:
Strongest:
- strict
- unflinching
- persistent
- severe
- stouthearted
- hard-line
- inexorable
- stern
- firm
- hidebound
- relentless
- rigid
- steadfast
- iron
- tenacious
Strong:
- implacable
- narrow-minded
- stubborn
- bloody-minded
- determined
- refractory
- resolved
- hard-nosed
- obstinate
- unyielding
- hardened
- pertinacious
- intransigent
- immovable
- hell-bent
- obdurate
- hardheaded
- wrongheaded
- unbending
- uncompromising
- set
- single-minded
- wayward
- inflexible
- cantankerous
- obsessive
Weak:
- recalcitrant
- contrary
- perverse
- intractable
- unrelenting
- insubordinate
- cussed
- disobedient
- self-opinionated
- defiant
- adamant
- uncooperative
- willful
- bullheaded
- mutinous
- pat
- unmanageable
- self-willed
- insurgent
- anal-retentive
- unruly
- stiff-necked
- froward
- dogged
- adamantine
- hard
- headstrong
- pigheaded
- wilful
- mulish
- ossified
- inconvincible
- ungovernable
- contumacious
- opinionated
Meaning of hard-shell
Webster
hard-shell (a.)
Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
hard-shell Sentence Examples
- The hermit crab carried its hard-shell home on its back.
- The turtle's hard-shell provided protection from predators.
- The lobster's claws were covered in a hard-shell exterior.
- The armadillo curled up into its hard-shell defense mechanism.
- The hard-shell pecans required a strong nutcracker to crack them open.
- The hard-shell beetles could withstand being stepped on.
- The hard-shell helmet protected the soldier's head during combat.
- The hard-shell case contained delicate scientific equipment.
- The hard-shell clams remained closed, even when touched.
- The hard-shell crab was a popular dish in seafood restaurants.
FAQs About the word hard-shell
Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
strict, unflinching, persistent, severe, stouthearted,hard-line, inexorable, stern, firm, hidebound
amenable, compliant, pliant, amenable, flexible, docile, agreeable, agreeable, docile, acquiescent
The hermit crab carried its hard-shell home on its back.
The turtle's hard-shell provided protection from predators.
The lobster's claws were covered in a hard-shell exterior.
The armadillo curled up into its hard-shell defense mechanism.
