headstrong
adjEtymology From Middle English heedstrong, equivalent to head + strong.
1
Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
- He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything.
- O, there's nothing to be hoped for from her! ſhe's as headſtrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 52:
- Derived terms
- headstrongly, headstrongness