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