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- The stiff-necked politician stuck to his outdated beliefs despite overwhelming evidence against them.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