Synonyms of self-willed

self-willed

adjective

ˌself-ˈwild 

as in stubborn

sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

a self-willed toddler who refused to take her shoes off in the examining room

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stubborn
• adamant
• wilful
• willful
• headstrong
• steadfast
• obstinate
• hardened
• intransigent
• bullheaded
• opinionated
• obdurate
• obsessive
• implacable
• mulish
• pertinacious
• uncompromising
• unbending
• hardheaded
• inflexible
• pigheaded
• unrelenting
• unyielding
• immovable
• perverse
• stiff-necked
• ossified
• dogged
• strict
• persistent
• determined
• adamantine
• pat
• self-opinionated
• hard
• hard-nosed
• relentless
• deaf to reason
• inconvincible
• wayward
• defiant
• tenacious
• severe
• stern
• disobedient
• iron
• rigid
• stouthearted
• resolved
• wrongheaded
• inexorable
• cantankerous
• contumacious
• unflinching
• narrow-minded
• insubordinate
• single-minded
• hard-line
• hidebound
• mutinous
• unruly
• recalcitrant
• intractable
• unmanageable
• uncooperative
• anal-retentive
• refractory
• invincible
• indomitable
• bloody-minded
• ungovernable
• contrary
• firm
• hard-shell
• unregenerate
• inveterate
• unconquerable
• hard-shelled
• froward
• insurgent
• hell-bent
• cussed
• set
• exacting
• demanding
• confirmed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• obedient
• acquiescent
• flexible
• agreeable
• pliant
• amenable
• compliant
• docile
• pliable
• submissive
• complying
• yielding
• tractable
• willing
• receptive
• responsive
• accepting
• reasonable
• placable
• relenting
• manageable
• temperate
• subservient
• slavish
• persuadable
• governable