hard-shelled Antonyms
Strongest:
- compliant
- complying
- flexible
- amenable
- complying
- pliant
- acquiescent
- amenable
- obedient
- docile
- compliant
- obedient
- agreeable
- docile
- agreeable
- pliant
- pliable
- pliable
- acquiescent
- flexible
Strong:
- responsive
- placable
- willing
- placable
- willing
- temperate
- tractable
- reasonable
- accepting
- manageable
- submissive
- yielding
- yielding
- reasonable
- accepting
- manageable
- receptive
- responsive
- receptive
- temperate
- submissive
- tractable
Weak:
Strongest:
- rigid
- unflinching
- stouthearted
- firm
- stern
- inexorable
- relentless
- persistent
- tenacious
- strict
- hard-line
- iron
- hidebound
- severe
- steadfast
Strong:
- hardheaded
- uncompromising
- cantankerous
- pertinacious
- immovable
- hardened
- refractory
- bloody-minded
- single-minded
- implacable
- stubborn
- set
- unbending
- hard-nosed
- determined
- resolved
- inflexible
- narrow-minded
- intransigent
- obsessive
- wrongheaded
- obdurate
- unyielding
- obstinate
- hell-bent
- wayward
Weak:
- mutinous
- wilful
- unruly
- opinionated
- dogged
- unrelenting
- disobedient
- contumacious
- headstrong
- ossified
- froward
- self-willed
- stiff-necked
- defiant
- insubordinate
- bullheaded
- pigheaded
- hard
- recalcitrant
- inconvincible
- insurgent
- anal-retentive
- perverse
- ungovernable
- mulish
- adamantine
- adamant
- self-opinionated
- unmanageable
- pat
- cussed
- willful
- intractable
- contrary
- uncooperative
Meaning of hard-shelled
hard-shelled (s)
of animals or plants that have a hard shell
hard-shelled Sentence Examples
- The turtle's hard-shelled exterior protected it from the claws of its predators.
- The hard-shelled eggs of the tortoise required careful handling to avoid breakage.
- The hermit crab's body was soft, but it found a hard-shelled home in an abandoned snail shell.
- The armadillo's hard-shelled back served as an effective defense against its enemies.
- The hard-shelled nut's tough exterior hid its sweet and nutritious kernel.
- The oyster's hard-shelled exterior protected its delicate body from the harsh ocean currents.
- The lobster's hard-shelled claws were used for capturing and crushing its prey.
- The hard-shelled beetles scurried across the forest floor, their shiny carapaces reflecting the sunlight.
- The archaeologist carefully excavated the hard-shelled remains of an ancient snail fossil.
- The hard-shelled helmet provided the soldier with protection from enemy fire.
FAQs About the word hard-shelled
of animals or plants that have a hard shell
rigid, unflinching, stouthearted, firm, stern, inexorable, relentless, persistent, tenacious, strict
compliant, complying, flexible, amenable, complying, pliant, acquiescent, amenable, obedient, docile
The turtle's hard-shelled exterior protected it from the claws of its predators.
The hard-shelled eggs of the tortoise required careful handling to avoid breakage.
The hermit crab's body was soft, but it found a hard-shelled home in an abandoned snail shell.
The armadillo's hard-shelled back served as an effective defense against its enemies.
