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