stiff-necked Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- important
- masterful
- pretentious
- presumptuous
- chesty
- sniffy
- high-and-mighty
- domineering
- uppish
- cavalier
- imperious
- huffy
- uppity
- bumptious
- authoritarian
- pompous
- assumptive
- hifalutin
- high-handed
- smug
- superior
- dominant
- supercilious
- haughty
Weak:
- impudent
- self-assertive
- vainglorious
- snobby
- hubristic
- swaggering
- extroverted
- egotistical
- egoistic
- proud
- highfalutin
- egocentric
- prideful
- self-complacent
- narcissistic
- saucy
- cocky
- toplofty
- self-centered
- high-hat
- snobbish
- dominating
- stuck-up
- presuming
- bossy
- pontifical
- extraverted
- toploftical
- vain
- complacent
- bombastic
- self-conceited
- lordly
- pontificating
- condescending
- self-asserting
- huffish
- impertinent
- uninhibited
- disdainful
- boastful
- overweening
- blusterous
- conceited
- peremptory
- magisterial
- lofty
- egoistical
- egotistic
- snooty
- blustery
- self-satisfied
- patronizing
Strongest:
- modest
- humble
- timid
- subdued
- sheepish
- introverted
- bashful
- bashful
- sheepish
- lowly
- unpretentious
- humble
- shy
- unpretentious
- lowly
- modest
- shy
- diffident
- subdued
- diffident
- introverted
- timid
Strong:
- submissive
- self-critical
- submissive
- self-doubting
- demure
- unarrogant
- passive
- self-doubting
- quiet
- self-critical
- mousy
- unarrogant
- compliant
- unobtrusive
- unaggressive
- acquiescent
- mousey
- cringing
- deferential
- cringing
- mousy
- meek
- unassertive
- compliant
- unassertive
- quiet
- yielding
- demure
- deferential
- yielding
- acquiescent
- meek
- unaggressive
- unobtrusive
- passive
- mousey
- unassuming
- shrinking
- unassuming
- shrinking
Weak:
stiff-necked Meaning
Wordnet
stiff-necked (s)
haughtily stubborn
stiff-necked Sentence Examples
- The stiff-necked emperor refused to listen to his advisors' wise counsel.
- The horse exhibited a stiff-necked demeanor, making it difficult to ride.
- The stiff-necked politician stuck to his outdated beliefs despite overwhelming evidence against them.
- The stiff-necked child refused to apologize for his wrongdoing.
- The stiff-necked athlete refused to take any advice from his coach.
- The priest's stiff-necked sermon fell on deaf ears.
- The boss's stiff-necked attitude alienated his employees.
- The stiff-necked scientist refused to accept any data that contradicted his theories.
- The stiff-necked mother refused to let her daughter pursue her dreams.
- The stiff-necked bureaucrat insisted on following regulations to the letter, even when it caused inconvenience.
FAQs About the word stiff-necked
haughtily stubborn
arrogant, important, masterful, pretentious, presumptuous, chesty, sniffy, high-and-mighty, domineering, uppish
modest,humble, timid, subdued, sheepish, introverted, bashful, bashful, sheepish, lowly
The stiff-necked emperor refused to listen to his advisors' wise counsel.
The horse exhibited a stiff-necked demeanor, making it difficult to ride.
The stiff-necked politician stuck to his outdated beliefs despite overwhelming evidence against them.
The stiff-necked child refused to apologize for his wrongdoing.
