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headstrong

adj

Etymology

From Middle English heedstrong, equivalent to head + strong.

  1. inherited from heedstrong

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at headstrong. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at headstrong. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at headstrong

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA