Wayward

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Way"ward*ly}, adv. -- {Way"ward*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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