self-willedness Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- inflexible
- willful
- opinionated
- unbending
- pat
- ossified
- adamantine
- unyielding
- intransigent
- immovable
- hardened
- self-opinionated
- hard
- determined
- perverse
- pigheaded
- headstrong
- unrelenting
- stiff-necked
- pertinacious
- bullheaded
- dogged
- steadfast
- obsessive
- hard-nosed
- obdurate
- obstinate
- strict
- persistent
- mulish
- uncompromising
- implacable
- hardheaded
Weak:
- insubordinate
- hell-bent
- hard-shell
- stouthearted
- cussed
- set
- intractable
- demanding
- inveterate
- exacting
- firm
- refractory
- cantankerous
- defiant
- insurgent
- tenacious
- severe
- narrow-minded
- unruly
- disobedient
- uncooperative
- hard-line
- wayward
- mutinous
- hard-shelled
- contumacious
- relentless
- unmanageable
- resolved
- wrongheaded
- ungovernable
- recalcitrant
- iron
- contrary
- inconvincible
- froward
- indomitable
- single-minded
- bloody-minded
- unflinching
- deaf-to-reason
- inexorable
- unconquerable
- rigid
- hidebound
- invincible
- anal-retentive
- stern
- unregenerate
Strongest:
- docile
- pliant
- submissive
- compliant
- flexible
- willing
- obedient
- pliable
- complying
- tractable
- agreeable
- amenable
- acquiescent
- yielding
- amenable
- tractable
- obedient
- pliable
- docile
- yielding
- compliant
- submissive
- agreeable
- acquiescent
- willing
- flexible
- complying
- pliant
Strong:
- temperate
- receptive
- responsive
- reasonable
- responsive
- accepting
- temperate
- manageable
- placable
- relenting
- reasonable
- relenting
- placable
- manageable
- accepting
- receptive
Weak:
self-willedness Meaning
Webster
self-willedness (n.)
Obstinacy.
self-willedness Sentence Examples
- The child's self-willedness frequently caused clashes with their parents.
- Despite repeated warnings, the teenager persisted in their self-willedness.
- The dictator's self-willedness led to the downfall of his regime.
- The employee's self-willedness hindered progress on the project.
- The stubborn horse resisted being ridden due to its self-willedness.
- The manager attributed the team's conflict to the self-willedness of certain members.
- The young woman's self-willedness made her unapproachable by potential suitors.
- The horse trainer struggled to tame the animal's self-willedness.
- The child's tantrums were a direct result of their self-willedness.
- The investor's self-willedness led them to make reckless decisions.
FAQs About the word self-willedness
Obstinacy.
stubborn, adamant, wilful, inflexible,willful, opinionated, unbending, pat, ossified, adamantine
docile, pliant, submissive, compliant, flexible, willing,obedient, pliable, complying, tractable
The child's self-willedness frequently caused clashes with their parents.
Despite repeated warnings, the teenager persisted in their self-willedness.
The dictator's self-willedness led to the downfall of his regime.
The employee's self-willedness hindered progress on the project.
