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Antonyms for wayward


Grammar : Adj
Spell : wey-werd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪ wərd



Definition of wayward

Origin :
  • late 14c., shortening of aweiward "turned away," from away + -ward.
  • adj contrary, unmanageable
Example sentences :
  • From the moment they again met, his wayward heart reverted to her.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • I have, indeed, been the luckless victim of wayward follies; but, alas!
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • But wayward children must, with all kindness, be flogged into obedience.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Through some trick of wayward thought, to myself and my trouble.
  • Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells
  • Then pity won the day in the wayward but ever gentle heart of Valentina.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • It was proper that the severe mother should chastise her wayward child.
  • Extract from : « Henry IV, Makers of History » by John S. C. Abbott
  • Frontenac, on his part, was the most wayward and headstrong of men.
  • Extract from : « The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index » by Various
  • No, Billy; I reviewed every step of my strange and wayward life.
  • Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever
  • She should come and show that she is not wayward or unmanageable.
  • Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
  • We are but simpletons, the best of us, and I am a very inconsistent and wayward simpleton.
  • Extract from : « Hortus Inclusus » by John Ruskin

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