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