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