Headstrong

Definition: Headstrong

Headstrong

Adjective

1. Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "headstrong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Headstrong

Obstinacy

Willful, self-willed, perverse; resty, restive, restiff; pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete; contumacious; crossgrained.

Rashness

Hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy.

Violence

Excited; Verb: unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable; uncontrollable, incontrollable; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic.

Crosswords: Headstrong

Yes, she can be a bit headstrong. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond)

Neither could change their headstrong ways ("WHO'S CRYIN NOW"; performing artist: Journey)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Headstrong (Pine Hollow, 14) (reference)

• How to Live With a Headstrong Horse (reference)

• The Headstrong Bride (Silhouette Desire, No 896) (reference)

• The Headstrong Heart (reference)

• The Headstrong Ward (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Electronica: Headstrong Tripno Funk (reference)

• Headstrong [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• SONIC FOUNDRY Headstrong Grooves (Windows) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

kokëngjeshur (hardheaded, opinionated, pigheaded), kokëfortë (balky, bullheaded, contrary, cussed, dogged, hard bitten, hardheaded, hidebound, impracticable, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, stickler, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, urgent, wayward, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), i paarsyeshëm (arbitrary, daft, desperate, devil may care, gratuitous, irrational, preposterous, unconscionable, unreasonable, wanton), i nxituar (cursory, hasty, heady, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hurried, imprudent, precipitant, premature, previous, rash, reckless, slapdash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏جامح (inordinate, mad, madcap, raving, stubborn, unruly, wild, wilful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

своеволен (anarchic, anarchical, arbitrary, high handed, masterful, opinionated, recalcitrant, self willed, self-opinionated, unauthorized, unmanageable, untoward, unwarranted, wayward, willful), вироглав (perverse, unmanageable). (various references)

Chinese 

顽固 (Bigotry, Dogged, hardheaded). (various references)

Czech

umínìný (hell-bent, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, refractory, self-opinionated, stubborn, wayward, wilful, willful), tvrdohlavý (contrary, hell-bent, mulish, opinionated, pigheaded, refractory, self willed, stubborn), svéhlavý (fractious, pigheaded, restive, stiff necked, wayward, wilful, willful). (various references)

Farsi 

لجوج (Dogged, Dour, Intractable, Obdurate, Obstinate, Obstreperous, Pertinacious, Set, Stickler, Stubborn, Stuffy), لجباز, سرسخت (Barnacle, Bullheaded, Diehard, Dogged, Dour, Intransigent, Inveterate, Obstinate, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Remorseless, Stark, Stubborn, Tenacious), خودسر (Intractable, Opinionated, Pertinacious, Stubborn, Wayward, Wilful), خودرای (Absolute, Hidebound, Nonconformist, Obstinate, Opinionated, Peremptory, Wayward). (various references)

Finnish

sisukas (persistent), itsepuolustuspäinen (obstinate, self-willed, stubborn). (various references)

French

têtu, obstiné (heady), impétueux (heady). (various references)

German

verbockt (pig-headed), eigenwillig (individual, outlandish, outlandishly, self willed, wayward, willful). (various references)

Greek 

ισχυρογνώμων (contumacious, hard-headed, hidebound, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful). (various references)

Hebrew 

קש�" עורף (obdurate, stiff necked), עקשן (adamant, bone head, contrary, dogged, obdurate, obstinate, pertinacious, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, stubborn). (various references)

Hungarian

makacs (bullet-headed, bull-headed, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, dogged, dour, froward, hard bitten, hard set, hide-bound, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff, stiff necked, stubborn, stuffed shirt, tough, wrong-headed), akaratos (contrary, cross-grained, hard-mouthed, recalcitrant, self-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful). (various references)

Indonesian

degil (obstinate). (various references)

Italian

testardo (bulldog, mulish, obdurate, pigheaded, stubborn, wilful, willful), ostinato (determined, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persistent, pigheaded, self willed, single minded, stiff necked, stubborn, tough), caparbio (balky, pigheaded, restive, stubborn, wayward, wilful, willful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

狷介 (obstinate, stubborn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

け�"かい (obstinate, opinion, point of view, prefectural assembly, stubborn). (various references)

Manx

raghtanagh (harsh, indigent, obstinate, rough, stubborn), kione-lajeragh (arbitrary, contumacious, obdurate, obstinate, persistent, strong-willed), gyn thort (headlong, impulsive, inconsiderate, inconsideration, maladroit, snap, unconsidered), creoi-veeallagh. (various references)

Norwegian

stri, sta. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadstronghay

Portuguese

teimoso (ambivalent, balky, die hard, Dogger, hard-mouthed, mulish, obstinate, opium, peevish, pertinacity, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, strongwilled, stubborn, tough, tumbler, uncompromising, unmanageable, unwilling, wayward, wilful, willful, wrong-headed), pedra angular (cornerstone, keystone, quoin), obstinado (ambivalent, balky, contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard-mouthed, mulish, non-ductile, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pertinacious, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, stiff necked, stolid, stubborn, tenacious, unredeemed, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrong-headed). (various references)

Romanian

încãpãţânat (awkward, contumacious, die hard, dogged, dour, hard, inveterate, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, royalist, self willed, stolid, stubborn, tough, unwilling, wilful). (various references)

Russian 

упрямый (asinine, balky, baulky, bolshy, contrary, cross-grained, cussed, dogged, dour, froward, hardbitten, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, pig-headed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff necked, stiff-necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), своевольный (high handed, opinionated, self willed, self-willed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tvrdoglav (crabby, cross-grained, die hard, hard bitten, hardheaded, heady, intractable, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, pigheaded, pig-headed, stiff necked, stubborn, willful). (various references)

Spanish

voluntarioso (self willed, wayward, wilful, willful), testarudo tozudo, impetuoso (hothead, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, violent). (various references)

Swedish

envis (be obstinate, contrary, cussed, dogged, dour, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded). (various references)

Turkish

inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, dour, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), dik kafalı (fractious, heady, intractable, obstinate, pigheaded, pig-headed, rigid, self-opinionated, spiky, stiff necked, strongheaded, unsubmissive), dediğim dedik (domineering, self-opinionated, set, stubborn), burnunun dikine giden. (various references)

Ukranian 

упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, cobby, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), свавільний (arbitrary, cobby, hard-mouthed, high handed, notionate, opinionated, opinioned, ramstam, self willed, wayward, wilful, willful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bướng bỉnh cứng đầu cứng cổ, ương ngạnh (hard-handed, pertaincious, stiff-necked, tough, unadvisable, unamenable, wayward, wrong-headed). (various references)

Welsh

pen.gryf (stubborn), pen.galed (knapweed). (various references)

contentiosa, contentiose, contentiosus, ferox. (various references)

testif. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dragonets, goatherds.

-2 letters: dragnets, dragonet, estragon, goatherd, grandest, hardnose, negators, shortage, thronged.

-3 letters: another, anthers, argents, atoners, dangers, dearths, dehorns, dehorts, dogears, donates, dotages, dragnet, dragons, earshot, ganders, gardens, garnets, garoted, garotes, gathers, ghosted, gnashed, gorhens, granted, groaned, hadrons, hagdons, hagrode, handset, hangers, hardens, hardest, hardset, hatreds, hoarsen, hornets, hostage, negator, onagers, onstage, oranges, orgeats, rehangs, roasted, rodents, sandhog, senator, senhora, shorted, shorten, snorted, stander, stanged, stengah, storage, strange, tangoed, thenars, thonged, thorned, threads, throned, thrones, throngs, tongers, torsade, trashed, treason.

-4 letters: adores, adorns, agents, agones, ahorse, angers, anodes, anther, antres, ardent, argent, argons, argots, arseno, ashore, astern, atoned, atoner, atones, dagoes, danger, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, dehorn, dehort, denars, derats, dogear, donate, dongas, dosage, dotage, doters, dragon, drones, earths, ergots, ethnos, gander, garden, garnet, garote, garths, gashed, gasher, gasted, gaster, gather, gators, genoas, genros, gerahs, gherao, godets, gonads, goners, gorhen, grades, grands, grants, grated, grates, greats, groans, groats, hadron, hagdon, hanged, hanger, hanted, harden, hasted, hasten, haters, hatred, hearts, herons, hoards, hoarse, hogans, hondas, honers, honest, hordes, horned, hornet, horsed, horste, hosted, nestor, norths, noshed, nosher, noters, nother, oaters, onager, orange, orangs, orated, orates, oreads, organs, orgeat, ornate, others, radons, ranged, ranges, ranted, reason, redans, redons, rehang, reshod, reshot, retags, rodent, sander, sanger, sarode, sarong, seadog, senhor, senora, shader, shared, shoran, shored, snared, snathe, snored, soared, sonder, sorned, sorted, staged, stager, staned, stared, sterna, stodge, stoned, stoner, stored, strand, strang, strode, strong, tanged, tangos, targes, tenors, tensor, thanes, thegns, thenar, thongs, thorns, thread, throes, throne, throng, togaed, toners, tongas, tonged, tonger, torahs, trades, treads, trends, tronas, trones.

-5 letters: adore, adorn, aeons, agent, agers, agone, agons, anger, angst, anode, anted, antes, antre, argon, argot, arose, arson, ashed, ashen, aster, atone, dagos, dangs, dares, darns, darts, dater, dates, datos, deans, dears, deash, death, degas, denar, dents, derat, doats, doers, doest, doeth, doges, donas, donga, dongs, dorsa, doser, doter, dotes, drags, drats, dregs, drest, drone, earns, earth, egads, ergot, ethos, etnas, garth, gated, gates, gator, gears, genoa, genro, gents, gerah, getas, ghast, ghats, ghost, gnars, gnash, gnats, goads, goats, godet, goers, gonad, goner, gored, gores, gorse, grade, grads, grand, grans, grant, grate, great, groan, groat, grots, hades, hadst, haets, hands, hangs, hanse, hants, hards, hared, hares, harts, haste, hated, hater, hates, heads, heard, hears, heart, heats, hents, herds, herns, heron, heros, hoard, hoars, hoers, hogan, honda, honed, honer, hones, hongs, horas, horde, horns, horse, horst, hosed, hosen, hosta, nards, nares, nates, nears, neath, neats, nerds, nerts, nodes.

+2 letters: dreadnoughts, grandmothers, hydrogenates, shortchanged, stranglehold.

+3 letters: strangleholds.

+4 letters: countershading, dehydrogenates, hydrogenations.

+5 letters: countershadings.

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