HEADSTRONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headstrong mean? 

• HEADSTRONG (adjective)
  The adjective HEADSTRONG has 1 sense:

1. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

  Familiarity information: HEADSTRONG used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADSTRONG (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

Synonyms:

froward; headstrong; self-willed; wilful; willful

Similar:

disobedient (not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority)

 Context examples 

Eliza, who was headstrong and selfish, was respected.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was a boy then, headstrong and violent, and it took a hard lesson to show me my mistake.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She is a very headstrong, foolish girl, and does not know her own interest but I will make her know it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He was brilliant, he was headstrong.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Mrs. Ferrars is a very headstrong proud woman, and in her first fit of anger upon hearing it, would very likely secure every thing to Robert, and the idea of that, for Edward's sake, frightens away all my inclination for hasty measures.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But what is so headstrong as youth?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lizzy is only headstrong in such matters as these.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

What if a former caprice (a freak very possible to a nature so sudden and headstrong as his) has delivered him into her power, and she now exercises over his actions a secret influence, the result of his own indiscretion, which he cannot shake off, and dare not disregard?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Pardon me for interrupting you, madam, cried Mr. Collins; but if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)