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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEADSTRONG, a. hed'strong. Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; resolute to run his own way; bent on pursuing his own will; not easily restrained.
Now let the headstrong boy my will control.
1. Directed by ungovernable will or proceeding from obstinacy; as a headstrong course.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. not easily restrained ; impatient of control, advice, or suggestions <a headstrong businessman> 2. directed by ungovernable will <violent headstrong actions> Synonyms: see unruly

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. self-willed and obstinate. Derivatives: headstrongly adv. headstrongness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Headstrong Head"strong` (?; 115), a. 1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. --Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. --Dryden. Syn: Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; unruly; venturesome; heady.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you refer to someone as headstrong, you are slightly critical of the fact that they are determined to do what they want. He's young, very headstrong, but he's a good man underneath. = stubborn, wilful ADJ

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hed'-strong.

See HEADY.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Stubborn, obstinate, dogged, violent, ungovernable, unruly, intractable, heady, headless, self-willed, cross-grained, cantankerous, froward.

Moby Thesaurus

balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, hardheaded, heady, insubordinate, intolerant, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, rampant, refractory, reinless, restive, self-willed, set, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungoverned, unregenerate, unreined, unrestrained, wildcat, willful, wrongheaded