self-willed Antonyms
Strongest:
- yielding
- pliable
- obedient
- compliant
- willing
- flexible
- agreeable
- docile
- obedient
- acquiescent
- flexible
- amenable
- acquiescent
- tractable
- pliant
- submissive
- willing
- complying
- yielding
- agreeable
- complying
- docile
- compliant
- amenable
- submissive
- pliable
- tractable
- pliant
Strong:
- responsive
- placable
- relenting
- accepting
- placable
- reasonable
- temperate
- accepting
- receptive
- relenting
- manageable
- responsive
- temperate
- manageable
- reasonable
- receptive
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- pertinacious
- strict
- inflexible
- hard
- hardened
- self-opinionated
- obstinate
- unbending
- pat
- persistent
- opinionated
- hardheaded
- stiff-necked
- bullheaded
- intransigent
- unyielding
- uncompromising
- willful
- determined
- pigheaded
- ossified
- unrelenting
- hard-nosed
- adamantine
- immovable
- steadfast
- perverse
- implacable
- dogged
- headstrong
- mulish
- obdurate
- obsessive
Weak:
- inexorable
- insurgent
- uncooperative
- unflinching
- froward
- deaf-to-reason
- unconquerable
- inconvincible
- bloody-minded
- indomitable
- hard-line
- insubordinate
- exacting
- contumacious
- hard-shell
- cantankerous
- resolved
- hell-bent
- defiant
- anal-retentive
- tenacious
- severe
- unruly
- unmanageable
- mutinous
- recalcitrant
- unregenerate
- rigid
- narrow-minded
- wrongheaded
- refractory
- demanding
- intractable
- disobedient
- stouthearted
- ungovernable
- stern
- invincible
- single-minded
- hidebound
- firm
- iron
- contrary
- relentless
- cussed
- inveterate
- hard-shelled
- set
- wayward
Meaning of self-willed
self-willed (s)
habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
self-willed (a.)
Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.
self-willed Sentence Examples
- The self-willed child refused to listen to his parents' warnings.
- Despite the consequences, the self-willed woman insisted on going her own way.
- The self-willed horse bolted from its enclosure, ignoring the pleas of its rider.
- His self-willed nature cost him dearly as he rejected advice and guidance.
- The self-willed teenager rebelled against authority, defying expectations.
- The self-willed athlete refused to compromise, even when it jeopardized his success.
- Her self-willed determination led her to achieve goals that seemed impossible.
- The self-willed politician stubbornly refused to compromise, even at the expense of progress.
- The self-willed dog barked incessantly, ignoring its owner's commands.
- His self-willed refusal to cooperate made it difficult to collaborate on projects.
FAQs About the word self-willed
habitually disposed to disobedience and oppositionGoverned by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.
stubborn, adamant, wilful, pertinacious, strict, inflexible, hard, hardened, self-opinionated, obstinate
yielding, pliable,obedient, compliant, willing, flexible, agreeable, docile, obedient, acquiescent
The self-willed child refused to listen to his parents' warnings.
Despite the consequences, the self-willed woman insisted on going her own way.
The self-willed horse bolted from its enclosure, ignoring the pleas of its rider.
His self-willed nature cost him dearly as he rejected advice and guidance.
