STUBBORNvery determined to do what you want, even when other people advise you not to do it 倔强的,固执的► see thesaurus at determined
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headstrong• Eleanor, on the other hand, was said to be beautiful and lively; she was certainly headstrong and indiscreet.• Suzie was headstrong, and sometimes thoughtless of other people's feelings.• He was energetic, headstrong, and unorthodox-and he had compelling reasons for reducing the ruinously expensiveSovietnucleararsenal.• a headstrong child• But it all seemed very appropriate and didn't seem like a headstrong, desperatemanoeuvre in any sense.• How did one stop a person like Harriet, headstrong, independent, beholden to no one?• Leo's parents soon found that they were completely unable to control their headstrongson.• He is surprised at how headstrong, spoiledrotten, and needful of training and discipline I have become during his absence.