Wayward \Way"ward\, a. [OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned
away. See Away, and -ward.]
Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse;
willful.
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My wife is in a wayward mood. --Shak.
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Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. --Fairfax.
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Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought? --Keble.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wayward
adj : resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite
contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper";
"a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary,
obstinate, perverse]
WordNet (r) 2.0
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "wayward":
Adamic, Paphian, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary,
backsliding, balky, cantankerous, capricious, carnal, chambering,
changeable, changeful, contrary, cranky, cross-grained, crotchety,
desultory, deviable, difficult, disobedient, dizzy, easy,
eccentric, erratic, erring, fallen, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic,
fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, fleshly, flickering,
flighty, flitting, fluctuating, frail, freakish, froward, giddy,
harebrained, humorsome, impetuous, impulsive, impure, inconsistent,
inconstant, indecisive, indisciplined, infirm, irascible,
irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, lapsed, lawless, lax,
light, loose, loose-moraled, maggoty, mazy, mercurial, moody,
motiveless, naughty, nonconforming, notional, obstinate,
of easy virtue, of loose morals, ornery, peccable, perverse,
petulant, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, quirky, rambling,
recidivist, recidivistic, recusant, restive, restless, roving,
scatterbrained, self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty,
shuffling, slack, spasmodic, spineless, stuffy, sulky, sullen,
temperamental, transgressive, unaccountable, unangelic, uncertain,
unchaste, unclean, uncomplying, uncontrolled, undependable,
undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unfixed, ungodly, ungood,
unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unrighteous,
unsaintly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
unsteadfast, unsteady, unvirtuous, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant,
variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, violative, virtueless,
volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, weak,
whimsical, whorish, willful, wishy-washy, wrongheaded
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
contrary, obstinate, perverse
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