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