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self-torture |
self-trust |
self-uned |
self-view |
self-whispered |
self-will
| self-willed
| self-willedness
| self-winding
| self-worship
| self-worth
self-will
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun self-will has 2 senses
- self-will(n = noun.attribute) bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, stubbornness - resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires; Array is a kind of firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve
- self-will(n = noun.attribute) possession, self-command, self-control, self-possession, will power, willpower - the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior; Array is a kind of firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve
has particulars: impenitence, impenitency, intransigence, intransigency
has particulars: nerves, presence of mind
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-will, n. [AS. selfwill.].
One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
self-will
Obstinacy
N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.
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