hard-shell Antonyms
Strongest:
- obedient
- agreeable
- flexible
- flexible
- compliant
- pliable
- complying
- amenable
- pliant
- acquiescent
- obedient
- amenable
- complying
- docile
- compliant
- pliant
- acquiescent
- pliable
- agreeable
- docile
Strong:
- accepting
- reasonable
- responsive
- placable
- accepting
- tractable
- yielding
- temperate
- submissive
- tractable
- manageable
- manageable
- placable
- submissive
- temperate
- receptive
- receptive
- reasonable
- willing
- responsive
- willing
- yielding
Weak:
Strongest:
- severe
- hidebound
- tenacious
- unflinching
- stern
- rigid
- hard-line
- strict
- relentless
- stouthearted
- inexorable
- steadfast
- firm
- persistent
- iron
Strong:
- wayward
- hardened
- obdurate
- determined
- obstinate
- wrongheaded
- resolved
- bloody-minded
- intransigent
- refractory
- unbending
- obsessive
- hell-bent
- set
- inflexible
- pertinacious
- unyielding
- immovable
- cantankerous
- narrow-minded
- hard-nosed
- implacable
- hardheaded
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- single-minded
Weak:
- dogged
- opinionated
- hard
- adamantine
- wilful
- pigheaded
- insurgent
- stiff-necked
- uncooperative
- contrary
- disobedient
- froward
- bullheaded
- intractable
- anal-retentive
- insubordinate
- willful
- cussed
- ungovernable
- unrelenting
- headstrong
- mutinous
- contumacious
- self-willed
- recalcitrant
- pat
- ossified
- perverse
- unruly
- unmanageable
- defiant
- adamant
- mulish
- self-opinionated
- inconvincible
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.
severe, hidebound, tenacious, unflinching, stern, rigid,hard-line, strict, relentless, stouthearted
obedient, agreeable, flexible,flexible, compliant, pliable, complying, amenable, pliant, 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.
