Headstrong \Head"strong`\ (-str[o^]ng`; 115), a.
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
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Now let the headstrong boy my will control.
--Dryden.
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2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from
obstinacy; as, a headstrong course. --Dryden.
Syn: Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; untractable; stubborn;
unruly; venturesome; heady.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
headstrong
adj : habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward,
self-willed, willful, wilful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "headstrong":
balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded,
case-hardened, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, hardheaded,
heady, insubordinate, intolerant, irresponsible, lawless,
licentious, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous,
persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, rampant, refractory,
reinless, restive, self-willed, set, stiff-necked, strong-willed,
strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, unaccountable,
unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed,
undisciplined, ungoverned, unregenerate, unreined, unrestrained,
wildcat, willful, wrongheaded
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
froward, self-willed, wilful, willful
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