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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

rigid/inflexible and uncompromising, especially in holding conservative religious beliefs;

e.g. His parents are hard-shell Catholics and he had a very religious upbringing.

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Similar Words

Anal

Anal-retentive

Determined

Firm

Hard-line

Hell-bent

Hidebound

Inexorable

Iron

Narrow-minded

Persistent

Relentless

Retentive

Rigid

Set

Severe

Single-minded

Steadfast

Stern

Stouthearted

Strict

Tenacious

Unflinching

Wayward

Wrongheaded

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Opposite Words

Accepting

Acquiescent

Agreeable

Amenable

Compliant

Docile

Flexible

Manageable

Obedient

Persuadable

Placable

Pliable

Pliant

Receptive

Responsive

Slavish

Submissive

Subservient

Temperate

Tractable

Willing

Yielding

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Related Words

Adamant

Adamantine

Bullheaded

Deaf

Dogged

Hard

Hard-nosed

Hardheaded

Headstrong

Immovable

Implacable

Inconvincible

Inflexible

Intransigent

Mulish

Obdurate

Obstinate

Opinionated

Pat

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pigheaded

Self-willed

Stiff-necked

Stubborn

Unbending

Uncompromising

Unrelenting

Unyielding

Willful

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