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headstrongadjective given to resisting control or discipline by othersa 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, stubbornundisciplined, unpunisheduncontrolled, wildboisterous, irrepressible, rambunctious, rowdydisobedient, indocile, insubordinate, rebelliousmisbehaving, naughty out of hand controllable, governable, manageable, tractable docile, obedient, well-behavedcompliant, placable, pliable, submissive, yieldingaccepting, persuadable, receptive, responsive, willingreasonable, temperate, trainable sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasionthe 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, 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 unruly, ungovernable, intractable, refractory, recalcitrant, willful, headstrong mean not submissive to government or control.unruly implies lack of discipline or incapacity for discipline and often connotes waywardness or turbulence of behavior.unruly children ungovernable implies either an escape from control or guidance or a state of being unsubdued and incapable of controlling oneself or being controlled by others.ungovernable rage intractable suggests stubborn resistance to guidance or control.intractable opponents of the hazardous-waste dump refractory stresses resistance to attempts to manage or to mold.special schools for refractory children recalcitrant suggests determined resistance to or defiance of authority.acts of sabotage by a recalcitrant populace willful implies an obstinate determination to have one's own way.a willful disregard for the rights of others headstrong suggests self-will impatient of restraint, advice, or suggestion.a headstrong young cavalry officer in the 14th century |