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self-trust |
self-uned |
self-view |
self-whispered |
self-will |
self-willed
| self-willedness
| self-winding
| self-worship
| self-worth
| self-wrong
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self-willed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective self-willed has 1 sense
- self-willed(s = adj.all) froward, headstrong, wilful, willful - habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-willed, a.
Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-willed, adj. obstinately pursuing one's own wishes.
Derivative
self-will n.
THESAURUS
self-willed
balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, contrary, contumacious, determined, difficult, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, forceful, froward, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, incorrigible, indisciplined, insubordinate, intolerant, intractable, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, mulish, mutinous, naughty, nonconforming, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rampant, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reinless, restive, set, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, transgressive, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncomplying, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unregenerate, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, vexatious, violative, wayward, wildcat, willfulROGET THESAURUS
self-willed
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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