set in ways
Resistant to change
Someone who is set in their ways is resistant to changing habits, opinions, or routines.
The phrase usually describes older people who've settled into fixed patterns and won't adapt: My grandfather is too set in his ways to learn new technology.
It carries a mildly critical tone, suggesting stubbornness or inflexibility.
- stubbornRefusing to change course
- rigidUnable to bend
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
- fixedRestored or immovable
won't budge · routine · habits · old habits die hard · tradition · entrenched · unchanging · creature of habit · creatures of habit · old dog · stuck · stuck in a rut · immovable · predictable · resistant · unyielding · same old · same old same old
- aging humorretirement jokes, senior moments, senior moment, over the hill, old timer
- stubbornnessstubbornness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness
- closed-mindednessclosed-mindedness, close-mindedness, narrow-mindedness, inflexibility, rigidity
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- attitudespositive, negative, ambition, apathy, curiosity
- tenacitydetermined, persistence, persistent, perseverance, determination
set in waysflexible
Able to bend freely
adaptable · malleable · go with the flow · changeable · pliable
set in waysopen-minded
Receptive to different ideas
receptive · broad-minded · adventurous · curious · progressive
set in waysever-changing
Perpetually in transformation
evolving · transformable · mutable · changeable · protean
set, sets, setting, setter, setters, way, ways, wayside, wayward