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