self-willed

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-willed, a. 

 Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-willed, adj. obstinately pursuing one's own wishes.

Derivative

self-will n.

THESAURUS

self-willed

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

ROGET THESAURUS

self-willed

Obstinacy

N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.