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Webster 1913 Edition

(-strŏngˊ; 115)

Adj.

Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.

Now let the

headstrong

boy my will control.

Dryden.

Syn. – Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; untractable; stubborn; unruly; venturesome; heady.

Adj.

hed'strong. Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; resolute to run his own way; bent on pursuing his own will; not easily restrained.

Now let the headstrong boy my will control.

Directed by ungovernable will or proceeding from obstinacy; as a headstrong course.