Thesaurus
hardheadedness
Synonyms and Antonyms of hardheadedness
- Her unrelenting hardheadedness didn't win many friends, but it helped her to get her way most of the time.
perverseness, perversity, waywardness, wrongheadedness
adamancy (also adamance), determination, implacability, inexorability, inflexibility, inveteracy, perseverance, persistence, persistency, relentlessness, resolve, single-mindedness, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenaciousness, tenacity
firmness, hardness, rigor, rigorousness, sternness, strictness
narrow-mindedness, rigidity, rigidness
cantankerousness, contrariness, cussedness
balkiness, defiance, disobedience, frowardness, insubordination, intractability, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness
- the hardheadedness of a bean counter
acumen, astuteness, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, clear-sightedness, foxiness, intelligence, keenness, knowingness, sharpness, shrewdness, wit
artlessness, greenness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, innocence, naiveness, naïveté (also naivete), simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, unsophistication, unworldliness
brainlessness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dumbness, fatuity, foolishness, half-wittedness, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, senselessness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity, witlessness
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