headstrong

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From Middle English heedstrong, equivalent to head + strong.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: үҙһүҙле (üźhüźle) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Bashkir: еңмеш (yeñmeş) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Bashkir: ныҡышмал (nıqışmal) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Bulgarian: своеволен (svoevolen) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Bulgarian: вироглав (viroglav) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Catalan: tossut — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Catalan: cabut — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Chinese Mandarin: 任性 (rènxìng) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Czech: odhodlaný — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Czech: tvrdohlavý — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Danish: egenrådig — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Finnish: sisukas — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Finnish: päättäväinen — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• French: obstiné — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• German: eigensinnig — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Greek: ισχυρογνώμων (ischyrognómon) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Hindi: हठी (haṭhī) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Hungarian: nyakas — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Hungarian: konok — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Hungarian: makacs — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Irish: ceanntréan — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Irish: ceanndána — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Italian: determinato — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Māori: matauaua — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Māori: upoko mārō — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Māori: taringa pākura — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Norwegian Bokmål: egenrådig — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Plautdietsch: baulstierich — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Polish: uparty — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Polish: nieustępliwy — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Polish: zawzięty — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Portuguese: obstinado — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Romanian: încăpățânat — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Romanian: căpos — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Russian: своенравный (svojenravnyj) — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Spanish: díscolo — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Spanish: desconsiderado — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Swedish: egensinnig — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Turkish: dik başlı — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want
• Turkish: dik kafalı — determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want