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hardheaded
Synonyms and Antonyms of hardheaded
- a hardheaded politician who was guided by practicality over ideology
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
agile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve)
exploitable, gullible (also gullable)
birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey (also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-minded
foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witless
- Granny remained hardheaded about keeping her house and not moving into a nursing home.
adamant, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
determined, hell-bent, inexorable, persistent, relentless, resolved, set, single-minded, steadfast, stouthearted, tenacious, unflinching
firm, hard-line, iron, severe, stern, strict
hidebound, narrow-minded, rigid
disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly
indomitable, invincible, unconquerable
deaf to reason
- a hardheaded principal who understands the pressures teenagers face
down-to-earth, earthy, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic
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