Synonyms of hardheaded

hardheaded

adjective

1

as in smart

having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment

a hardheaded politician who never hesitated to set aside principle in favor of expediency

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smart
• shrewd
• savvy
• astute
• wise
• canny
• intelligent
• clear-eyed
• veteran
• clear-sighted
• sharp
• experienced
• clever
• sharp-witted
• cunning
• knowing
• brilliant
• keen
• hard-boiled
• wily
• heady
• sagacious
• perspicacious
• perceptive
• cagey
• bright
• resourceful
• insightful
• quick
• slick
• crafty
• sly
• artful
• tricky
• sage
• foxy
• brainy
• devious
• subtle
• discerning
• cagy
• guileful
• discriminating
• pawky
• nimble
• calculating
• agile
• quick-witted
• sapient
• ingenious
• discriminative
• percipient
• apt
• dodgy
• alert
• scheming
• sharp-sighted
• sharp-eyed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• naive
• naïve
• guileless
• artless
• gullible
• ingenuous
• innocent
• unknowing
• unwise
• dumb
• stupid
• obtuse
• thickheaded
• unperceptive
• foolish
• dopey
• dense
• exploitable
• simple
• slow
• knuckleheaded
• softheaded
• unintelligent
• idiotic
• ignorant
• silly
• dull
• feebleminded
• gullable
• thoughtless
• lamebrained
• brainless
• moronic
• uninformed
• lamebrain
• imbecilic
• imbecile
• dopy
• airheaded
• witless
• gormless
• lunkheaded
• dim-witted
• slow-witted
• thick-witted
• half-witted
• birdbrained
• weak-minded
• brain-dead
• empty-headed
• idiotical

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• naive
• naïve
• guileless
• artless
• gullible
• ingenuous
• innocent
• unknowing
• unwise
• dumb
• stupid
• obtuse
• thickheaded
• unperceptive
• foolish
• dopey
• dense
• exploitable
• simple
• slow
• knuckleheaded
• softheaded
• unintelligent
• idiotic
• ignorant
• silly
• dull
• feebleminded
• gullable
• thoughtless
• lamebrained
• brainless
• moronic
• uninformed
• lamebrain
• imbecilic
• imbecile
• dopy
• airheaded
• witless
• gormless
• lunkheaded
• dim-witted
• slow-witted
• thick-witted
• half-witted
• birdbrained
• weak-minded
• brain-dead
• empty-headed
• idiotical

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2

as in stubborn

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

Granny remained hardheaded about keeping her house and not moving into a nursing home

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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3

as in pragmatic

willing to see things as they really are and deal with them sensibly

a hardheaded minister who understands the difficulties teenagers face today

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pragmatic
• realistic
• practical
• pragmatical
• sensible
• cynical
• rational
• earthy
• logical
• reasonable
• matter-of-fact
• down-to-earth
• levelheaded
• grounded
• utilitarian
• sober
• skeptical
• sound
• sane
• tough-minded
• unsentimental
• disillusioned
• pessimistic
• unromantic
• philistine
• commonsensical
• hard
• no-nonsense
• distrustful
• mistrustful
• misanthropic
• sobersided
• hard-edged
• suspicious
• idealless
• hard-boiled
• bottom-line

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• idealistic
• visionary
• unrealistic
• impractical
• imaginative
• optimistic
• utopian
• romantic
• sentimental
• fanciful
• cheerful
• fantastical
• fantastic
• unreasonable
• irrational
• blue-sky
• theoretical
• trustful
• trusting
• illogical
• insane
• theoretic
• rose-colored
• unsuspicious
• half-baked

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• idealistic
• visionary
• unrealistic
• impractical
• imaginative
• optimistic
• utopian
• romantic
• sentimental
• fanciful
• cheerful
• fantastical
• fantastic
• unreasonable
• irrational
• blue-sky
• theoretical
• trustful
• trusting
• illogical
• insane
• theoretic
• rose-colored
• unsuspicious
• half-baked

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