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