Headstrong

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  headstrong
       adj : habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: {froward},
              {self-willed}, {willful}, {wilful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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