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wayward Adjective erratic, selfish, or stubborn [away + -ward] waywardness n
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wayward adjective erratic, unruly, wilful, unmanageable, disobedient, contrary, unpredictable, stubborn, perverse, rebellious, fickle, intractable, capricious, obstinate, headstrong, changeable, flighty, incorrigible, obdurate, ungovernable, self-willed, refractory, insubordinate, undependable, inconstant, mulish, cross-grained, contumacious, froward (archaic) << OPPOSITE obedient Translations adj wayward [ˈweiwəd] (of a child etc) self-willed and rebellious. moedswillig عاصٍ، صَعْب المِراس، مُتَمَرِّد капризен vzpurný egenrådig; uberegnelig eigensinnig δύστροπος, απείθαρχος (για παιδί) rebelde väänik, tujukas خودسر uppiniskainen rebelle סוֹרֵר निरंकुश tvrdoglav, svojeglav akaratos suka memberontak einþykkur, þrjóskur, ódæll testardo わがままな 고집 불통의, 제멋대로인 maištingas, neklusnus, nesukalbamas kaprīzs; ietiepīgs degil, keras hati, eigenzinnig egensindig, oppsetsig krnąbrny voluntarioso rebel своенравный samoľúby, svojhlavý kljubovalen svojeglav egensinnig, trilsk เอาแต่ใจ; ดื้อดึง; หัวแข็ง; ไม่เชื่อฟัง isyankâr, dik başlı 任性的 свавільний; примхливий ضدی ương ngạnh 任性的 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The same day I called on Lady Janet to thank her, and encountered a new revelation of the wayward and original character of my dear old aunt. Let him who calls me wild beast and basilisk, leave me alone as something noxious and evil; let him who calls me ungrateful, withhold his service; who calls me wayward, seek not my acquaintance; who calls me cruel, pursue me not; for this wild beast, this basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, wayward being has no kind of desire to seek, serve, know, or follow them. That odd sort of wayward mood I am speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke. |
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