Word Meanings - HEADSTRONG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;

Additional info about word: HEADSTRONG

1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; unruly; venturesome; heady.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEADSTRONG)

• Obstinate
• Headstrong
• stubborn
• refractory
• self-willed
• pertinacious
• obdurate
• perverse
• intractable
• Rampant
• Unbridled
• uncontrolled
• wanton
• headstrong
• luxuriant
• furious
• rank
• violent
• licentious
• vehement
• Rash
• audacious
• hasty
• precipitate
• reckless
• foolhardy
• careless
• adventurous
• thoughtless
• indiscreet
• venturesome
• overventuresome
• incautious
• unwary
• heedless
• Stubborn
• Tough
• unbending
• unyielding
• hard
• obstinate
• stiff
• harsh
• inflexible
• heady
• contumacious
• pig-headed
• Willful
• Purposed
• deliberate
• designed
• intentional
• prepense
• premeditated
• preconcerted
• wayward

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HEADSTRONG)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk

Related words: (words related to HEADSTRONG)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• PIG-HEADED
  Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• VEHEMENTLY
  In a vehement manner.
• UNWARY
  1. Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless. 2. Unexpected; unforeseen; unware. Spenser.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• PRECONCERTED
  Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.