Synonyms for waywardness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wey-werd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪ wərd |
Top 10 synonyms for waywardness Other synonyms for the word waywardness
- aberration
- abnormality
- anomaly
- assertiveness
- atrocity
- caprice
- capriciousness
- defiance
- dereliction
- devil
- devilment
- devilry
- deviltry
- diablerie
- dirty trick
- disorderliness
- disregard
- fault
- foible
- fractiousness
- freakishness
- friskiness
- frolicsomeness
- funny business
- gag
- harm
- heedlessness
- hereticism
- high jinks
- hurt
- idiocrasy
- ill
- imp
- impetuousness
- impishness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indiscipline
- indocility
- infraction
- infringement
- injury
- insubmission
- insubordination
- insurgence
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- irregularity
- kink
- lawlessness
- misbehavior
- mischievousness
- misdoing
- misfortune
- monkey business
- mutiny
- naughtiness
- neglect
- nonconformity
- nonobservance
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- oddity
- oddness
- orneriness
- outlandishness
- outrage
- perverseness
- perversity
- prankishness
- queerness
- quirk
- quirkiness
- rascality
- rebellion
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- revolt
- revolution
- riot
- roguery
- roguishness
- scamp
- sedition
- shenanigans
- singularity
- sportiveness
- strangeness
- strike
- stubbornness
- tomfoolery
- transgression
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- unconventionality
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- unorthodoxness
- unruliness
- untowardness
- vandalism
- violation
- waggery
- waggishness
- waywardness
- weirdness
- whimsicality
- whimsicalness
- wildness
- willfulness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
Définition of waywardness
Origin :- late 14c., shortening of aweiward "turned away," from away + -ward.
- As in mischief : noun trouble, damage
- As in impishness : noun mischief
- As in mischievousness : noun mischief
- As in obstinateness : noun unruliness
- As in obstreperousness : noun unruliness
- As in prankishness : noun mischief
- As in prankster : noun mischief
- As in quirkiness : noun eccentricity
- As in rascality : noun mischief
- As in recalcitrance : noun unruliness
- As in recalcitrancy : noun unruliness
- As in refractoriness : noun unruliness
- As in roguery : noun mischief
- As in roguishness : noun mischief
- As in shenanigan : noun mischief
- As in singularity : noun eccentricity
- As in uncontrollability : noun unruliness
- As in uncontrollableness : noun unruliness
- As in ungovernableness : noun unruliness
- As in unmanageability : noun unruliness
- As in untowardness : noun unruliness
- As in disobedience : noun misbehavior; noncompliance with rules
- As in eccentricity : noun bizarreness, unusualness
- She seemed to be incapable of wasting time or of waywardness.
- Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
- No one else knew so well as he the immense power and the waywardness of the Mississippi.
- Extract from : « James B. Eads » by Louis How
- Wandsworth High Street twists and winds with the waywardness of a river.
- Extract from : « The Combined Maze » by May Sinclair
- Allow me to delay my departure a few hours, dear waywardness!
- Extract from : « Cyrano de Bergerac » by Edmond Rostand
- Love, unconquered, unconquerable by human sin and waywardness.
- Extract from : « Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- What, wouldst turn on me with mine own waywardness, and cross me for being undutiful?
- Extract from : « Hildebrand » by Anonymous
- There is a waywardness in such an affection that formal man knows not of.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of My Dead Life » by George Moore
- He did good work in his line, but nothing is more peculiar to the man than his waywardness.
- Extract from : « Alone » by Norman Douglas
- Ever since we were boys I have liked you and befriended you, and borne with your waywardness.
- Extract from : « The Queen Against Owen » by Allen Upward
- And these most wonderful and providential beings their own waywardness had driven from them.
- Extract from : « Hydesville » by Thomas Olman Todd
Antonyms for waywardness
- advantage
- aid
- assistance
- behavior
- benefit
- blessing
- calm
- commonality
- conformity
- dullness
- favor
- good
- goodness
- happiness
- harmony
- help
- kindness
- manners
- normalcy
- normality
- obedience
- observance
- peace
- regard
- regularity
- regularness
- respect
- right
- sameness
- standard
- submission
- uniformity
- usual
- usualness
- virtue
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