Synonyms for wayward
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : wey-werd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪ wərd |
Top 10 synonyms for wayward Other synonyms for the word wayward
- balky
- changeable
- contumacious
- cross-grained
- disobedient
- disorderly
- fickle
- flighty
- fractious
- froward
- immoral
- inconstant
- incorrigible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- ornery
- perverse
- refractory
- restive
- self-indulgent
- self-willed
- stubborn
- uncompliant
- undependable
- ungovernable
- unpredictable
- unstable
- variable
- whimsical
- willful
Définition of wayward
Origin :- late 14c., shortening of aweiward "turned away," from away + -ward.
- adj contrary, unmanageable
- 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
Antonyms for wayward
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