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