most hardheaded

ADJECTIVE

stubborn

Synonyms

WEAK

astute bullheaded hard hard-boiled headstrong intractable levelheaded locked in mulish obstinate pertinacious perverse pigheaded practical pragmatic rational realistic resolute sensible shrewd sober stand pat tough tough-nut unsentimental unyielding willful

Antonyms

WEAK

easy easy-going laid-back merciful

ADJECTIVE

stubborn

Synonyms

STRONGEST

astute hard-nosed headstrong obstinate practical pragmatic rational sensible shrewd sober unsentimental

WEAK

bullheaded cool hang tough hard hard-boiled intractable level-headed locked in mulish pertinacious perverse pigheaded realistic resolute stand pat tough tough nut unyielding willful

Antonyms

STRONGEST

irrational stupid submissive unrealistic unreasonable

WEAK

yielding

Example Sentences

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On Saturday night, with many of the same guests plus the gospel-tinged BGV Music Choral Group, Mr. Cale offered an uncompromising survey of his post-Velvets career: his most hardheaded songs, not his most ingratiating ones.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2017

This is where the most hardheaded evictees hold their ground.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2016

Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar This is the Hollywood actor as entrepreneur, as career strategist, and McConaughey suddenly sounds like the most hardheaded ballbuster in town.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2012

Some of the most hardheaded incumbent isolationists were already beaten in primaries: Missouri's mulish Bennett Clark, Idaho's stubborn D. Worth Clark, Oregon's egregious Rufus Holman, South Carolina's "Cotton Ed" Smith.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, finally, to the men who feared demagogues and the natural perversity of some human beings we insisted that time and bitter experience would teach the most hardheaded.

From The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)