Crossword clues for headstrong
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headstrong \Head"strong`\ (-str[o^]ng`; 115), a.
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Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
Now let the headstrong boy my will control.
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Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy; as, a headstrong course.
--Dryden.Syn: Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; untractable; stubborn; unruly; venturesome; heady.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
WordNet
adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward, self-willed, willful, wilful]
Wikipedia
Headstrong may refer to:
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Headstrong (band), a Canadian hard rock band
- Headstrong (Headstrong album), the self-titled debut album by Headstrong
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Headstrong (Ashley Tisdale album), the debut album by Ashley Tisdale
- "Headstrong" (Ashley Tisdale song), the title track of the aforementioned album
- "Headstrong" (Trapt song), the debut single by Trapt
- Headstrong, the name of a family of Hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien's stories
- Headstrong (play), a stage play by Patrick Link
- Headstrong (company), a global consulting and IT services company
- Operation Headstrong (2003–2004), involving the training of Afghan commandos by British special forces
- Headstrong, an alias used by electronic music producer Geert Huinink
- Headstrong (Transformers), a character in Transformers fiction
"Headstrong" is the debut single from the band Trapt and the lead single from their 2002 self-titled debut album. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock (1 week on July 26, 2003) and Modern Rock (5 weeks on May 31, 2003) charts and No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as No. 1 on the singles recurrent charts. It crossed over to mainstream pop radio, peaking at No. 4 on Billboard Mainstream Top 40. The song also won two Billboard Music Awards in 2003 for "Best Modern Rock Track" and "Best Rock Track".
"Headstrong" was rated the No. 1 alternative song and No. 8 rock song of the decade of the 2000s by Billboard.1
Headstrong is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Ashley Tisdale, released on February 6, 2007, by Warner Bros. Records. Tisdale began working on the project after the first installment of High School Musical (2006), and after she had achieved the feat of being the first female artist to debut with two songs on the Billboard Hot 100. The singer worked with a variety of established writers and producers on the album, including Diane Warren, J.R. Rotem, Ryan Tedder, Evan "Kidd" Bogart, and Kara DioGuardi, among others. Commenting that the album garnered its title from her personality, Tisdale said she wanted to use her first album to formally introduce herself personally, and as not one of the characters she portrays.
Headstrongs music derives mainly from the genres of dance-pop and R&B, provided by electronica. Meanwhile, it incorporates hip hop beats and some tracks infuse dancehall and other world music. The album also lyrically explores themes in teen pop. Many critics compared her first effort to the first works of fellow Disney-alums Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Carrying primarily an urban tone, the " hip pop" of Gwen Stefani is also said to be an influence on the album. Headstrong itself was given mixed reviews by critics, who while complimenting it overall, called it ordinary and panned the ballads. Critics were also ambivalent towards Tisdale's vocal performance. Whereas, the album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, selling over 64,000 copies in its opening week, it also charted in numerous international markets. It was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and Irish Recorded Music Association.
The album's lead single, " Be Good to Me," charted moderately in the United States and select European markets. Tisdale's breakthrough hit, " He Said She Said" peaked at 58 in the US, and appeared on several international charts, peaking in the top 20 in Germany and Austria. The last two singles were released in certain countries in Europe exclusively. The third single, " Not Like That" charted in the top half of several European charts, while the fourth and final single " Suddenly" charted in Germany. Tisdale supported the album with promotional appearances, High School Musical: The Concert, and her tour, Headstrong Tour Across America. The album was voted as the sixth best album of 2007 by the readers of Billboard.
Headstrong was a Canadian rock band formed in 1998. They released one eponymous studio album under RCA Records before being dropped from the label and ultimately disbanding in 2003.
Headstrong is the eponymous debut release and sole album of the band of the same name. It was released on RCA Records in 2002 and proved to be the group's only album before disbanding the following year.
The band chose Dan Brodbeck, the same man behind their demo, to produce the album in their hometown of London, Ontario, Canada..Headstrong features one single in "Adriana," which reached #15 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and had a music video. Its style features elements of hip hop and funk intertwined with metal and has been compared to bands like Rage Against the Machine, 311, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Prior to the release of Headstrong, the band toured through Canada from November to December 2001. Following its release, they performed with Tommy Lee before being curiously pulled from touring in July 2002. The following month they were dropped by RCA Records.
Curiously, despite that all of the members and producers were Canadian by origin, 'Headstrong' was priced at $24.99 in local Canadian markets, making it difficult for the band to earn fans in their debut in their own territory. The band cites these types of decisions in their reasons to exit the music business.
Headstrong (A Genpact Company) is a company with presence across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, operating in more than 14 locations. It was formed in 2000 when Arjun Malhotra led Techspan was merged with James Martin Associates (by Dr. James Martin) who sat as Headstrong's chairman emeritus until his death in June 2013. Arjun Malhotra became Chairman & CEO of Headstrong in 2004. Beginning from the start of 2010 Sandeep Sahai, the president of the company, became the CEO.
In 2011 Headstrong has been acquired by GENPACT for US$550mn. and formed Genpact headstrong capital markets
Headstrong is an American play by Patrick Link, commissioned by the EST/Sloan Project. It premiered at The Ensemble Studio Theatre in April, 2012.
The play explores the research behind concussions in professional sports and depicts a fictional former linebacker who must come to terms with the long-term consequences he may suffer from playing the game he loves. Headstrong was noted in an article on Grantland, in addition to other sites, to illustrate the growing public awareness of CTE. In 2013 the play was recorded by LA Theatre Works as part of its Relativity Series, featuring Ernie Hudson and Scott Wolf.
Usage examples of "headstrong".
In another December, north of Bedford, in Buckden, Suffolk, hero of the battlefield and the tiltyard, victor of many a bedchamber, had been defeated, outmanoeuvred by a headstrong woman and a group of peasants.
He reminded the assembly of the evils which Rome had endured from the vices of headstrong and capricious youths, congratulated them on the election of a virtuous and experienced senator, and, with a manly, though perhaps a selfish, freedom, exhorted Tacitus to remember the reasons of his elevation, and to seek a successor, not in his own family, but in the republic.
Besides, I was no longer at that headstrong age which only knows one kind of satisfaction, that of the sword.
He went on to tell me his story, talking softly but evenly at first, when the going was easier, when it was the good part, the happy part about his college years, when he was a headstrong young man in love with a girl named Gabriella Vargas.
So great is the headstrong power of the finest metaphors, that an author may be incommoded by one that does his business for him handsomely, as a king may suffer the oppression of a powerful ally.
It amused her to invent a scheme for managing the headstrong talkers, and also let off a certain spirit of mischief which in some of these nervous girls shows itself in much more questionable forms.
Andre Dolfin, a man sixty years of age, strict, headstrong, and ignorant.
She'd been headstrong, that one, with the unproved wisdom and brazenness of youth.
While on the other hand the Rime Islers, including the crusty and measuredly friendly Groniger, found it a good thing, indicative that these wild allies and would-be neighbors, questionable protégés of those headstrong freewomen Cif and Afreyt, were settling down nicely into law-abiding and hardheaded island ways.
Lord Clivers tells me that forty years ago Rubber Coleman was headstrong, sharp of purpose, and quick on the trigger.
If you were headstrong, and a creature of whims, and you'd just beaten, strangled, and decapitated another babe just for the hell of it, where would you head for?
From childhood, Annette, her oldest, had been the headstrong one, quietly determined to chart her own course, quick to rebel against rules and motherly advice.
Our hearts encircle the mother, for she has sleepless nights, and gnashes her teeth and wrings her hands over the headstrong nature of the daughter she's charged to instruct!
Then there are his mind-boggling headbutts, which usually finish off even the most headstrong opponents.
Later he married his Maui sweetheart, a fine Hawaiian woman, and they had a pert daughter, but she was a headstrong girl who liked to do as she wished, and at the age of nineteen she married a Chinese farmer named Ching, so that her daughter who went by the name of Mae Forbes was really Ching Lan Tsin, Perfect Flower Ching, and her marriage to Whipple Hoxworth was the first example of an Oriental, or part-Oriental, in her case, marrying into a major island family.