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hardheadedadjective having or showing a practical cleverness or judgmenta hardheaded politician who never hesitated to set aside principle in favor of expediency astute, canny, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hard-boiled, heady, knowing, savvy, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart artful, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, pawky(chiefly British), slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wilydiscerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wiseexperienced, veterandiscriminating, discriminativeagile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sightedapt, ingenious, resourcefulcalculating, scheming unknowing artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve)exploitable, gullible(also gullable)unperceptive, unwisedense, dull, obtuseairheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey(also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-mindedfoolish, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witlessignorant, uninformed sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionGranny remained hardheaded about keeping her house and not moving into a nursing home adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, headstrong, 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, obsessivewayward, wrongheadeddetermined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinchingfirm, hard-line, hard-shell(or hard-shelled), iron, severe, stern, stricthidebound, narrow-minded, rigidbloody-minded(chiefly British), cantankerouscontrary, cussedcontumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrulydefiant, insurgent, mutinousindomitable, invincible, unconquerableconfirmed, inveterate, unregeneratedemanding, exacting deaf to reason acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding docile, obedient, placable, submissive, tractableaccepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willinggovernable, manageable, reasonable, temperateslavish, subservient willing to see things as they really are and deal with them sensiblya hardheaded minister who understands the difficulties teenagers face today down-to-earth, earthy, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic(also pragmatical), realistic idealless, philistine, utilitariancommonsensical, grounded, levelheaded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, sober, sobersided, soundbottom-line, hard, hard-boiled, hard-edged, tough-minded, unromantic, unsentimentalcynical, disillusioned, misanthropic, pessimisticdistrustful, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious blue-sky, idealistic, impractical, unrealistic, utopian, visionary fanciful, fantastic(also fantastical), imaginativeromantic, sentimentalcheerful, optimistic, rose-coloredtrustful, trusting, unsuspicioushalf-baked, illogical, insane, irrational, unreasonabletheoretical(also theoretic) ca. 1532 |