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