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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn, obstinate |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bullheaded, contumacious, determined, dogged, fractious, froward, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, refractory, resolved, self-willed, stiff-necked, uncompromising, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | flexible, willing, yielding |
| Main Entry: | arbitrary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | whimsical, chance |
| Synonyms: | approximate, capricious, discretionary, erratic, fanciful, frivolous, inconsistent, injudicious, irrational, irresponsible, offhand, optional, random, subjective, supercilious, superficial, unaccountable, unreasonable, unscientific, wayward, willful |
| Antonyms: | circumspect, rational, reasonable, reasoned, supported |
| Main Entry: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | affected, calculated, deliberate, knowing, mannered, premeditated, rational, reasoning, reflective, responsible, self-conscious, studied, willful |
| Notes: | conscience is the noun meaning 'a sense of right and wrong' while conscious is the adjective meaning 'aware of something, being awake' |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, not deliberate, unconscious, unfeeling, unintentional, unstudied |
Example Sentences
- Many charges of willful violations involve the exposure of workers to hazardous levels of lead and arsenic.
- Ignorance is one thing, but willful disregard for appropriate underpant procedure is not to be tolerated alastrina.
- It seems to require willful blindness to what's actually happening in technology.
| Main Entry: | considered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deliberate, thought-out |
| Synonyms: | advised, aforethought, contemplated, designed, designful, examined, express, given due consideration, gone into, intentional, investigated, mediated, premeditated, prepense, studied, studious, thought-about, thought-through, treated, voluntary, weighed, well advised, well chosen, willful |
| Antonyms: | disregarded, forgotten, neglected, unplanned, unstudied |
| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | advised, aforethought, calculated, careful, cautious, cold-blooded, conscious, considered, cut-and-dried, designed, designful, done on purpose, express, fixed, intended, judged, meticulous, planned, pondered, prearranged, predesigned, predeterminate, predetermined, premeditated, prepense, projected, provident, prudent, purposed, purposeful, purposive, reasoned, resolved, schemed, scrupulous, studied, studious, thought out, thoughtful, voluntary, wary, weighed, willful, with forethought, witting |
| Antonyms: | chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unmethodical, unsystematic, unwitting |
| Main Entry: | disobedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defiant, mischievous |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, disorderly, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, naughty, noncompliant, nonobservant, obstreperous, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, resistive, uncompliant, undisciplined, unruly, wayward, willful |
| Antonyms: | accepting, behaving, nice, obedient, observant, submitting |
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, bugged, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, high on, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, monomaniacal, narrow-minded, nuts for, obsessed, obsessive, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, turned on, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hard-nosed/hardheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | astute, bullheaded, hard*, hard-boiled, headstrong, intractable, levelheaded, locked in, mulish, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, practical, pragmatic, rational, realistic, resolute, sensible, shrewd, sober, stand pat, tough, tough-nut, unsentimental, unyielding, willful |
| Antonyms: | easy, easy-going, laid-back, merciful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | headstrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stubborn |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded, contrary, determined, foolhardy, froward, hard-core, hard-nosed, hard-shell, heedless, imprudent, impulsive, intractable, locked-in, mule, mulish, murder, obstinate, perverse, pig-headed, rash, reckless, refractory, self-willed, strong-minded, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, unyielding, willful |
| Antonyms: | calm, docile, moderate, obedient, submissive, tolerant |
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