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