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单词 hardheadedness
释义

hardheaded

adjective

hard·​head·​ed ˈhärd-ˈhe-dəd How to pronounce hardheaded (audio)
1
: stubborn, willful
2
: concerned with or involving practical considerations : sober, realistic
some hardheaded advice
a hardheaded observer of winds and tides
hardheadedly adverb
hardheadedness noun

Synonyms

  • astute
  • canny
  • clear-eyed
  • clear-sighted
  • hard-boiled
  • heady
  • knowing
  • savvy
  • sharp
  • sharp-witted
  • shrewd
  • smart
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Example Sentences

He was always hardheaded about getting his way. We need to take a more hardheaded approach to these problems. She gave him some hardheaded advice.
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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1532, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

hardheaded

adjective

hard·​head·​ed ˈhärd-ˈhe-dəd How to pronounce hardheaded (audio)
1
: stubborn sense 1
2
: using or showing good judgment
a hardheaded businessman

hardheadedness

noun

1
as in stubbornness
a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion her unrelenting hardheadedness didn't win many friends, but it helped her to get her way most of the time

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • stubbornness
  • bullheadedness
  • pigheadedness
  • persistence
  • intransigence
  • obstinacy
  • persistency
  • obduracy
  • doggedness
  • willfulness
  • determination
  • resolve
  • pertinacity
  • obdurateness
  • wrongheadedness
  • mulishness
  • tenacity
  • obstinateness
  • steadfastness
  • perseverance
  • defiance
  • self-opinionatedness
  • inflexibility
  • self-will
  • opinionatedness
  • tenaciousness
  • rebelliousness
  • waywardness
  • adamancy
  • perversity
  • implacability
  • pertinaciousness
  • perverseness
  • adamance
  • sternness
  • rigidity
  • inexorability
  • relentlessness
  • single-mindedness
  • strictness
  • cantankerousness
  • stick-to-itiveness
  • inveteracy
  • cussedness
  • recalcitrance
  • hardness
  • anal-retentiveness
  • rigidness
  • bloody-mindedness
  • intractability
  • firmness
  • contrariness
  • rigorousness
  • disobedience
  • unruliness
  • immovability
  • narrow-mindedness
  • insubordination
  • recalcitrancy
  • contumacy
  • rigor
  • balkiness
  • refractoriness
  • obstreperousness
  • immovableness
  • frowardness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • reasonableness
  • acquiescence
  • receptiveness
  • receptivity
  • acceptance
  • flexibility
  • reasonability
  • pliancy
  • pliability
  • docility
  • willingness
  • broad-mindedness
  • open-mindedness
  • obedience
  • subordination
  • compliance
  • surrender
  • slavishness
  • subservience
  • submission
  • pliableness
  • subserviency
  • pliantness
  • subordinateness
  • yielding
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2
as in intelligence
exceptional discernment and judgment especially in practical matters the hardheadedness of a bean counter

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • intelligence
  • wit
  • shrewdness
  • wisdom
  • astuteness
  • canniness
  • acumen
  • insight
  • intellect
  • keenness
  • caginess
  • clear-sightedness
  • foxiness
  • knowingness
  • perceptiveness
  • cunning
  • perceptivity
  • sharpness
  • sagacity
  • sense
  • perception
  • artfulness
  • cageyness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • wiliness
  • sagaciousness
  • subtlety
  • reason
  • deviousness
  • discernment
  • subtleness
  • guile
  • sapience
  • craftiness
  • percipience
  • sageness
  • gray matter
  • slickness
  • brain(s)
  • craft
  • artifice

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • naiveté
  • naïveté
  • guilelessness
  • naivete
  • unworldliness
  • ingenuousness
  • artlessness
  • unsophistication
  • simplemindedness
  • naiveness
  • simplicity
  • innocence
  • greenness
  • obtuseness
  • simpleness
  • stupidity
  • foolishness
  • dumbness
  • slowness
  • oafishness
  • dopiness
  • stupidness
  • witlessness
  • density
  • fatuity
  • brainlessness
  • mindlessness
  • senselessness
  • doltishness
  • vacuity
  • half-wittedness
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