self-willed in English

adjective

1

obstinately doing what one wants in spite of the wishes or orders of others.

the child may be very obstinate and self-willed

synonyms: willful, contrary, perverse, uncooperative, wayward, headstrong, stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, pigheaded, mulish, intransigent, recalcitrant, intractable, refractory

adjective

• willful, contrary, perverse, uncooperative, wayward, headstrong, stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, pigheaded, mulish, intransigent, recalcitrant, intractable, refractory
• headstrong, willful, froward

Use "self-willed" in a sentence

1. He is not self-willed, always insisting that his way or his point of view be accepted.

2. (An American Translation; New International Version) She is boisterous and stubborn, talkative and headstrong, loud and self-willed, brazen and defiant.

3. However, Eudokia did not live very happily with her new husband, who was warlike and self-willed and increasingly excluded her from power.

4. But my main concern is the decision to understand ‘Ascesis’ only as extreme forms of self-willed physical discipline, thereby privileging male choices and separating them from women’s experiences of suffering.

5. In anyone's view, I was a girl self-willed, barbarous and tyrannical. But these are all rights for girl. What's important is that I can discern the suitable condition to show my caprice.