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单词 self-will
释义

self-will

noun

ˌself-ˈwil How to pronounce self-will (audio)
: stubborn or willful adherence to one's own desires or ideas : obstinacy

Synonyms

  • bullheadedness
  • doggedness
  • hardheadedness
  • intransigence
  • mulishness
  • obduracy
  • obdurateness
  • obstinacy
  • obstinateness
  • opinionatedness
  • pertinaciousness
  • pertinacity
  • pigheadedness
  • self-opinionatedness
  • stubbornness
  • willfulness
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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

self-will

noun

as in willfulness
a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion a schoolboy with a streak of self-will and rebellion

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • receptivity
  • reasonableness
  • acquiescence
  • acceptance
  • obedience
  • subordination
  • reasonability
  • receptiveness
  • pliancy
  • docility
  • flexibility
  • surrender
  • pliability
  • willingness
  • compliance
  • broad-mindedness
  • subserviency
  • submission
  • subservience
  • slavishness
  • open-mindedness
  • yielding
  • pliableness
  • pliantness
  • subordinateness
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