Word Meanings - SELF-WILLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-WILLED)
- Despotic
- Autocratic
- domineering
- arbitrary
- arrogant
- imperious
- self-willed
- irresponsible
- absolute
- cruel
- tyrannical
- Obstinate
- Headstrong
- stubborn
- refractory
- pertinacious
- obdurate
- perverse
- intractable
- Willful
- Purposed
- deliberate
- designed
- intentional
- prepense
- premeditated
- preconcerted
- wayward
- headstrong
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SELF-WILLED)
Related words: (words related to SELF-WILLED)
- CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - 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. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - ABSOLUTENESS
The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. - 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; - PRECONCERTED
Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - ARROGANTLY
In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance. - DESPOTIC; DESPOTICAL
Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness, n. - CHANCEFUL
Hazardous. Spenser. - HEADSTRONGNESS
Obstinacy. Gayton. - DELIBERATELY
With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed. - DOMINEERING
Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag. Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv. - PREMEDITATION
The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought. - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - DELIBERATE
1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." - 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. - AWAYWARD
Turned away; away. Chaucer. - PERCHANCE
By chance; perhaps; peradventure. - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.