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