Synonyms of hard-nosed

hard-nosed

adjective

as in stubborn

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

the team's hard-nosed coach doesn't make exceptions for anybody

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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