Synonyms of wrongheaded

wrongheaded

adjective

as in rebellious

having or showing opinions or ideas that are wrong

wrongheaded people

I think he is taking a wrongheaded approach to dealing with the problem.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebellious
• contrary
• willful
• defiant
• stubborn
• resistant
• rigid
• rebel
• perverse
• mischievous
• wilful
• intractable
• bad
• wayward
• recalcitrant
• obstreperous
• ungovernable
• contumacious
• disobedient
• uncooperative
• insubordinate
• unruly
• wild
• balky
• uncompromising
• rude
• noncooperative
• mutinous
• peevish
• refractory
• dogged
• untoward
• restive
• adamant
• uncontrollable
• obstinate
• negativistic
• inflexible
• unrelenting
• obdurate
• hardheaded
• mulish
• insurgent
• unmanageable
• implacable
• unbending
• headstrong
• pigheaded
• opinionated
• froward
• incompliant
• unyielding
• naughty
• immovable
• pertinacious
• adamantine
• fractious
• errant
• undisciplined
• disorderly
• recusant
• disrespectful
• self-willed
• dissident
• ungracious
• discourteous
• impudent
• nonconformist
• inconsiderate
• monkeyish
• impolite
• monkeying
• uncivil
• insolent
• uncouth
• impertinent
• ornery
• unmannerly
• misbehaving
• ill-mannered
• ill-natured
• ill-bred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cooperative
• amiable
• agreeable
• deferential
• acquiescent
• behaved
• disciplined
• courteous
• yielding
• respectful
• polite
• obliging
• well-bred
• servile
• slavish
• obsequious
• subservient
• proper
• orderly
• manageable
• decorous
• amenable
• controllable
• obedient
• docile
• compliant
• tractable
• conformable
• mannerly
• kowtowing
• trainable
• submissive
• governable
• biddable
• ruly

Examples of wrongheaded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

McCloskey’s insistence that people should evaluate situations in transhistorical terms rather than protest the inequities of their own time and place proceeds from a wrongheaded conception of freedom that excises us from our contexts. —Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023

The decision by Elizabeth Gilbert to indefinitely delay the publication of her novel is a wrongheaded attempt to help the Ukrainian cause. —Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 12 June 2023

And, above them, by a Supreme Court all too ready to leave even a wrongheaded conservative decision in place long enough to do real damage. —Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023

These attacks have been paired with a disparaging and devaluing of of government work, leading talented personnel to pursue careers in the private sector on the wrongheaded assumption that exciting and innovative things can’t happen if Uncle Sam is paying the bills. —Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 June 2020