Synonyms for hard-headed

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hahrd-hed-id

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˈhɛd ɪd

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Définition 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

Example sentences :

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

Antonyms for hard-headed

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