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