Thesaurus / headstrong
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I tried to talk her into going to college, but she’s headstrong.
THE ECONOMIST’S GUIDE TO PARENTING: 10 YEARS LATER (EP. 479)STEPHEN J. DUBNEROCTOBER 21, 2021FREAKONOMICSProgressives see him as an experienced and headstrong rulemaker who is not afraid to take a hard line against big banks.
SENATE CONFIRMS ROHIT CHOPRA TO LEAD CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAUAARON GREGGSEPTEMBER 30, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIn the Schwab novel, a headstrong young woman makes a decision she might regret for the rest of her very long life.
BEST BOOKS OF 2020TERRI SCHLICHENMEYERJANUARY 10, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEOne of our kids is very headstrong, and my having to serve as the enforcer of rules has negatively affected our relationship.
CAROLYN HAX: THE PARENT WHO HAS TO BE THE ‘BAD COP’ IS FEELING BLUECAROLYN HAXNOVEMBER 8, 2020WASHINGTON POSTOthers are worried about the pandemic’s impact on small businesses and city finances and are headstrong on prioritizing economic recovery.
COASTAL ANXIETIES RUN DEEP IN OCEANSIDE MAYOR’S RACEKAYLA JIMENEZOCTOBER 12, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOBut she is a girl, and she does not mind her jack-sparrow being a trifle headstrong, if only he has a kind heart.
CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYANATOLE FRANCEThen it was that the insular propensity grew impudent and headstrong, and soon became a power in the land.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANHe, the conqueror, the irresistible, had never before met one of this audacious and headstrong breed.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDETOne must be pardoned for repeating the very rudiments of criticism to some of the headstrong writers of our day.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUSThat the Bretons are faithful no one doubts; but that they are still more headstrong is a justice that none will deny them.
LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOKVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO HEADSTRONG
- biased
- bigoted
- bugged
- burning
- contumacious
- credulous
- devoted
- dogmatic
- domineering
- enthusiastic
- erratic
- extreme
- fervent
- feverish
- fiery
- frenzied
- headstrong
- high on
- immoderate
- impassioned
- impulsive
- incorrigible
- infatuated
- mad
- monomaniacal
- narrow-minded
- nuts for
- obsessed
- obsessive
- obstinate
- opinionated
- partial
- partisan
- passionate
- possessed
- prejudiced
- rabid
- radical
- raving
- single-minded
- stubborn
- turned on
- unruly
- violent
- visionary
- wild
- willful
- zealous
- adventurous
- audacious
- bold
- brash
- daring
- determined
- devil-may-care
- fiery
- foolhardy
- frenzied
- furious
- harebrained
- harum-scarum
- hasty
- headlong
- headstrong
- heedless
- hotheaded
- ill-advised
- immature
- impetuous
- improvident
- imprudent
- impulsive
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insuppressible
- irrational
- jumping to conclusions
- madcap
- overhasty
- passionate
- precipitant
- precipitate
- premature
- reckless
- slapdash
- temerarious
- thoughtless
- unconsidered
- unguarded
- unthinking
- unwary
- venturesome
- venturous
- wild
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- self-willed
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
- assertive
- bawdy
- disorderly
- drunken
- forward
- fractious
- headstrong
- heedless
- impervious
- impetuous
- imprudent
- impulsive
- incorrigible
- inexorable
- insubordinate
- intemperate
- intractable
- lawless
- mean
- mutinous
- obstinate
- obstreperous
- opinionated
- ornery
- out of control
- out of line
- perverse
- quarrelsome
- rash
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- reckless
- refractory
- restive
- riotous
- rowdy
- turbulent
- uncontrollable
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- untoward
- unyielding
- violent
- wayward
- wild
- willful
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