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Self-willed definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SELF-WILL'ED, a. Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the will or wishes of others; not accomodating or compliant; obstinate.

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 governed by one's own will ; not yielding to the wishes of others ; obstinate • self-willedly adverb • self-willedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. obstinately pursuing one's own wishes. Derivatives: self-will n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Self-willed Self`-willed", a. Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is self-willed is determined to do the things that they want to do and will not take advice from other people. He was very independent and self-willed. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Wilful, dogged, obstinate, uncompliant, contumacious, headstrong, stubborn.

Moby Thesaurus

balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, contrary, contumacious, determined, difficult, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, forceful, froward, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, incorrigible, indisciplined, insubordinate, intolerant, intractable, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, mulish, mutinous, naughty, nonconforming, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rampant, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reinless, restive, set, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, transgressive, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncomplying, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unregenerate, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, vexatious, violative, wayward, wildcat, willful