Headstrong vs Independent - What's the difference?
headstrong | independent |
Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free
(politics) not affiliated with any political party
Providing a comfortable livelihood.
Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
* R. P. Ward
A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.
A neutral or uncommitted person.
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As adjectives the difference between headstrong and independent
is that headstrong is determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want while independent is not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.As a noun independent is
a candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.headstrong
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* headstrongly * headstrongnessindependent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an independent property
- a man of an independent mind
- That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement.