Willful \Will"ful\, a. [Will + full.] [Written also wilful.]
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1. Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful
murder. --Foxe.
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In willful poverty chose to lead his life.
--Chaucer.
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Thou to me
Art all things under heaven, all places thou,
Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence.
--Milton.
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2. Governed by the will without yielding to reason;
obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as,
a willful man or horse.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
willful
adj 1: done by design; "the insult was intentional"; "willful
disobedience" [syn: intentional, wilful]
2: habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward,
headstrong, self-willed, wilful]
3: by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a
knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"
[syn: deliberate, intentional, knowing, wilful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "willful":
advised, aimed, aimed at, arbitrary, autonomous, balking, balky,
bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, calculated,
case-hardened, conscious, considered, contemplated, contumacious,
decided, deliberate, deliberated, designed, determined,
discretional, discretionary, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic,
elective, envisaged, envisioned, factious, fanatic, free,
free will, froward, gratuitous, hardheaded, headstrong, heady,
independent, indisciplined, insubordinate, intended, intentional,
intolerant, intractable, irresponsible, knowing, lawless,
licentious, meant, meditated, mulish, mutinous, naughty,
nonconforming, nonmandatory, obstinate, of design, offered,
opinionated, optional, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious,
perverse, pigheaded, planned, proffered, projected, proposed,
purposed, purposeful, purposive, rampant, recusant, reinless,
resolved, restive, self-acting, self-active, self-determined,
self-determining, self-willed, set, spontaneous, stiff-necked,
strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, studied, sulky, sullen,
teleological, tenacious, transgressive, unaccountable, unasked,
unbesought, unbidden, unbridled, uncalled-for, unchecked,
uncoerced, uncompelled, uncomplying, uncontrolled, uncooperative,
uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unforced,
ungoverned, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted,
unregenerate, unreined, unrequested, unrequired, unrestrained,
unsolicited, unsought, violative, voluntary, volunteer, wayward,
wildcat, willing, witting, wrongheaded
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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