Synonyms and Antonyms of headstrong
1
given to resisting control or discipline by others
- a headstrong child who likes to test the limits of his parents' patience
froward, incontrollable, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
bullheaded, contrary, difficult, hardheaded, incorrigible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, perverse, pigheaded, self-willed, stiff, stiff-necked, stubborn
undisciplined, unpunished
uncontrolled, wild
boisterous, irrepressible, rambunctious, rowdy
disobedient, indocile, insubordinate, rebellious
misbehaving, naughty
docile, obedient, well-behaved
compliant, placable, pliable, submissive, yielding
accepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willing
reasonable, temperate, trainable
2
sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
- the tenants of the building remain headstrong in their determination not to be evicted by the developer
adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
anal-retentive, obsessive
wayward, wrongheaded
determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching
firm, hard-line, hard-shell (or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, strict
hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid
bloody-minded [chiefly British], cantankerous
contrary, cussed
contumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly
defiant, insurgent, mutinous
indomitable, invincible, unconquerable
confirmed, inveterate, unregenerate
demanding, exacting
docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractable
accepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willing
governable, manageable, reasonable,
