stiff-necked Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- superior
- chesty
- masterful
- high-handed
- important
- authoritarian
- huffy
- smug
- domineering
- haughty
- assumptive
- uppish
- pompous
- hifalutin
- sniffy
- supercilious
- pretentious
- high-and-mighty
- presumptuous
- cavalier
- dominant
- uppity
- imperious
- bumptious
Weak:
- boastful
- vain
- self-satisfied
- uninhibited
- dominating
- highfalutin
- impertinent
- saucy
- complacent
- self-assertive
- conceited
- patronizing
- self-asserting
- toploftical
- disdainful
- egoistical
- lofty
- peremptory
- condescending
- prideful
- toplofty
- magisterial
- impudent
- bossy
- blusterous
- self-complacent
- snobbish
- high-hat
- huffish
- extraverted
- bombastic
- narcissistic
- vainglorious
- extroverted
- self-centered
- hubristic
- pontificating
- snobby
- egoistic
- egotistic
- blustery
- lordly
- overweening
- egotistical
- stuck-up
- swaggering
- snooty
- egocentric
- cocky
- self-conceited
- presuming
- proud
- pontifical
Strongest:
- bashful
- humble
- timid
- humble
- subdued
- introverted
- modest
- introverted
- modest
- shy
- subdued
- lowly
- shy
- unpretentious
- sheepish
- lowly
- diffident
- bashful
- sheepish
- unpretentious
- diffident
- timid
Strong:
- unaggressive
- mousy
- self-critical
- meek
- unassertive
- unarrogant
- compliant
- cringing
- unobtrusive
- yielding
- shrinking
- unassertive
- quiet
- meek
- self-doubting
- self-doubting
- mousey
- unobtrusive
- quiet
- passive
- acquiescent
- cringing
- passive
- deferential
- mousy
- acquiescent
- submissive
- unassuming
- submissive
- compliant
- demure
- yielding
- demure
- unarrogant
- self-critical
- shrinking
- mousey
- deferential
- unaggressive
- unassuming
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- The stiff-necked politician stuck to his outdated beliefs despite overwhelming evidence against them.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, superior, chesty, masterful, high-handed, important, authoritarian, huffy, smug, domineering
bashful,humble, timid, humble, subdued, introverted, modest, introverted, modest, shy
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.
