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Antonyms for hard-headed
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : hahrd-hed-id |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˈhɛd ɪd |
- broken
- ceasing
- changeable
- compassionate
- completed
- ending
- finished
- flexible
- foolish
- halting
- impractical
- inconstant
- infrequent
- insane
- intermittent
- interrupted
- irregular
- kind
- merciful
- nice
- occasional
- relenting
- stopping
- surrendering
- sympathetic
- terminable
- unreasonable
- unsensible
- unsound
- varying
- wavering
- yielding
Definition of hard-headed
Origin :- also hardheaded, 1580s, "stubborn," from hardhead "dull person" (1510s), from hard + head (n.). Meaning "practical" is attested from 1779.
- As in unrelenting : adj merciless
- As in common-sense : adj reasonable
- He was good-natured, plucky in a hard-headed British way, and gentlemanly.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
- Of course you would, being a sensible, hard-headed American workingman.
- Extract from : « The Common Sense of Socialism » by John Spargo
- He was a sailor, and as hard-headed and practical a man as it has ever been my lot to meet.
- Extract from : « Seen and Unseen » by E. Katharine Bates
- Haven't you any hard-headed topers who are famous in the neighborhood?
- Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke
- You yourself have called me too hard-headed, too material for an artist.
- Extract from : « The Master Mummer » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- My father's so hard-headed when he gets his mind set—he's making me do it.
- Extract from : « Coniston, Complete » by Winston Churchill
- And that means he is hard-headed and has a good opinion of himself.
- Extract from : « Justin Wingate, Ranchman » by John H. Whitson
- He desires to show that he too is no theorist, that he also can be hard-headed and practical.
- Extract from : « The Fruits of Victory » by Norman Angell
- I can also add my testimony that she was a hard-headed woman.
- Extract from : « The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797 » by M. E. James
- Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a hard-headed British jury.
- Extract from : « Adventures of Sherlock Holmes » by A. Conan Doyle
Synonyms for hard-headed
- astute
- bound
- bound and determined
- brick-wall
- ceaseless
- commonsensical
- constant
- continual
- continuous
- cool
- cruel
- dead set on
- down-to-earth
- endless
- grim
- hanging tough
- hard-headed
- implacable
- incessant
- inexorable
- intransigent
- iron-fisted
- judicious
- levelheaded
- matter-of-fact
- mortal
- perpetual
- persistent
- pitiless
- practical
- rational
- realistic
- relentless
- remorseless
- rigid
- ruthless
- sane
- sensible
- set
- shrewd
- sound
- steady
- stern
- stiff
- stiff-necked
- tenacious
- tough
- unabated
- unbending
- unbroken
- unflinching
- unremitting
- unsparing
- unwavering
- unyielding
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