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self-willed
adjective as in deaf
adjective as in headstrong
adjective as in incompliant
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- 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
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in intractable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in intractable/intransigent
Weak matches
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang-tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked-in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
adjective as in obstinate
Strongest matches
adjective as in perverse
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- abnormal
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- capricious
- contrary
- contumacious
- corrupt
- crabby
- cross
- degenerate
- delinquent
- depraved
- deviant
- disobedient
- dogged
- erring
- fractious
- hard-nosed
- headstrong
- intractable
- intransigent
- irritable
- miscreant
- mulish
- nefarious
- obdurate
- obstinate
- petulant
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- refractory
- rotten
- spiteful
- stubborn
- unhealthy
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unyielding
- villainous
- wayward
- willful
adjective as in pig-headed
adjective as in pigheaded
adjective as in stubborn
Strongest matches
adjective as in unbendable
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbending
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in uncompliant
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- balky
- brassbound
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contumacious
- cussed
- determined
- die-hard
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- grim
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- implacable
- incompliant
- inexorable
- inflexible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- intransigent
- iron
- mulish
- obdurate
- opinionated
- ornery
- persevering
- persistent
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- steadfast
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unbendable
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unmanageable
- unreasonable
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- untoward
- unyielding
- willful
adjective as in wayward
Weak matches
- aberrant
- arbitrary
- balky
- changeable
- contumacious
- cross-grained
- disobedient
- disorderly
- fickle
- flighty
- fractious
- froward
- immoral
- inconstant
- incorrigible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- ornery
- perverse
- refractory
- restive
- self-indulgent
- stubborn
- uncompliant
- undependable
- ungovernable
- unpredictable
- unstable
- variable
- whimsical
- willful
adjective as in wild
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Example Sentences
Awful though it may be, The Demonologist is a case study in self-willed delusion.
The uniform is the man, and the man is a self-willed marvel who will not be denied.
A self-willed marvel, he was not even a natural athlete or much of an extrovert.
A self-willed chaos to familiar routines and associations, an involuntary revisiting of dead hours and buried sensations.
It is obvious from this that the prophet believed evil to be a human weakness with man as an active and self-willed agent.
I was arrogant and self-willed; I loved display, and above all, I threw all control far from me.
Yes, he would like a little bit of self-willed penance, but it is much better for him to submit, bodily and mentally.
For his old father, too, thought that no maiden could refuse to love his bonny self-willed son.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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