Wayward
['weɪwəd] or ['wewɚd]
Definition
(a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Perverse, froward, wilful, obstinate, headstrong, stubborn, intractable, unruly, cross-grained, refractory.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Willful, froward, perverse, refractory, disobedient, obstinate, stubborn
ANT:Docile, manageable, amenable
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Examples
- He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Meantime mind-wandering and wayward fancy are nothing but the unsuppressible imagination cut loose from concern with what is done. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work--one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She must tease and try her wayward brother till she has drilled him into what she wishes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You loved her when we were boys at school together, and, even then, she was wayward and slighted your young feelings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They 'light upon every flower,' following their own wayward wills, or because the wind blows them. Plato. The Republic.
- I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Poor Ellen--she was always a wayward child. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He was wild, wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the handling of large sums of money. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He kissed her brow--but the wayward girl, half sorry at his triumph, agitated by swift change of thought, hid her face in his bosom and wept. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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