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bloody-mindedness

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chiefly British

Synonyms & Antonyms of bloody-mindedness

as in cussedness, contrariness

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for bloody-mindedness

cantankerousness,
contrariness,
cussedness

narrow-mindedness,
rigidity,
rigidness

balkiness,
contumacy,
defiance,
disobedience,
frowardness,
immovability,
immovableness,
insubordination,
intractability,
obstreperousness,
rebelliousness,
recalcitrance,
recalcitrancy,
refractoriness,
unruliness

firmness,
hardness,
rigor,
rigorousness,
sternness,
strictness

adamancy
(also adamance),
determination,
implacability,
inexorability,
inflexibility,
inveteracy,
perseverance,
persistence,
persistency,
relentlessness,
resolve,
single-mindedness,
steadfastness,
stick-to-itiveness,
tenaciousness,
tenacity

anal-retentiveness,
perverseness,
perversity,
waywardness,
wrongheadedness

bullheadedness,
doggedness,
hardheadedness,
intransigence,
mulishness,
obduracy,
obdurateness,
obstinacy,
obstinateness,
opinionatedness,
pertinaciousness,
pertinacity,
pigheadedness,
self-opinionatedness,
self-will,
stubbornness,
willfulness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for bloody-mindedness

broad-mindedness,
open-mindedness,
reasonability,
reasonableness,
receptiveness,
receptivity

acceptance,
acquiescence,
flexibility,
pliability,
pliableness,
pliancy,
pliantness

compliance,
docility,
obedience,
subordinateness,
subordination

submission,
surrender,
willingness,
yielding

slavishness,
subservience,
subserviency

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