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