Headstrong vs Obstreperous - What's the difference?
headstrong | obstreperous | Related terms |
Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 7:
* 1855 , , "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":
* 1918 , , On the Stairs , ch. 3:
Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.
* 1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , October 1827:
* 1903 , , "A Sandshore Wooing" in Short Stories: 1902-1903 :
* 1915 , , The Gray Dawn , ch. 70:
Headstrong is a related term of obstreperous.
As adjectives the difference between headstrong and obstreperous
is that headstrong is determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want while obstreperous is attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.headstrong
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* headstrongly * headstrongnessobstreperous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.
- . . . my hope
- Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
- With that obstreperous joy success would bring
- He developed an obstreperous baritone . . . and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.
- [W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.
- My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.
- They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.
