Headstrong
['hedstrɒŋ] or ['hɛdstrɔŋ]
Definition
(a.) Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
(a.) Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy.
Edited by Ervin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Stubborn, obstinate, dogged, cantankerous, ungovernable, unruly, intractable, heady, self-willed, cross-grained.
Typist: Rachel
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See OBSTINATE]
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Examples
- I said, 'Can you, at your time of life, be so headstrong, my friend, as to persist that an arm-chair is a thing to put upon a shelf and look at? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You are the worst trouble now, headstrong youth! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I fear she is headstrong. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She is a very headstrong, foolish girl, and does not know her own interest but I will _make_ her know it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- If you are not too headstrong to accept of a bit of dinner, here it is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Dorothea could fancy that it was alive now--the delicate woman's face which yet had a headstrong look, a peculiarity difficult to interpret. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Eliza, who was headstrong and selfish, was respected. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Lizzy is only headstrong in such matters as these. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Do you wish to know why I meant it, you rash and headstrong old woman? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Obstinate, headstrong girl! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But what is so headstrong as youth? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I was a boy then, headstrong and violent, and it took a hard lesson to show me my mistake. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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