Meaning of HEADSTRONG
| Pronunciation: | | 'hed`strong
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| | Definition: | | [adj] habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition |
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| | Synonyms: | | disobedient, froward, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Head"strong`\ (?; 115), a.
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;
unruly; venturesome; heady.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungoverned, unregenerate, unreined, unrestrained, wildcat, willful, wrongheaded |
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