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wayward
[ wey-werd ]
adjective
- turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient:
a wayward son; wayward behavior.
Synonyms: , , , , , ,
- swayed or prompted by caprice; capricious:
a wayward impulse; to be wayward in one's affections.
- turning or changing irregularly; irregular:
a wayward breeze.
Synonyms: , ,
wayward
/ ˈɱɪə /
adjective
- wanting to have one's own way regardless of the wishes or good of others
- capricious, erratic, or unpredictable
Derived Forms
- ˈɲɲԱ, noun
- ˈɲɲ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- ɲw· adverb
- ɲw·Ա noun
- ܲ·ɲw adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of wayward1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Neither did his second start, his Dodger Stadium debut a second consecutive blur of wayward pitches, walks, hits and runs.
The Briton broke first in the second set, a nicely angled backhand forcing the error from Lamens, but she immediately surrendered the break with a wayward service game.
More creative craft saw him to recover from another wayward drive on 14, hitting another iron out of the pinestraw and through hooded branches to escape with a par.
"There is a new imperative in New Zealand on the cultural front, the necessity to address and correct Treaty overreach that has increasingly and evidently become wayward and wrong," she said.
The company’s aesthetic mode is wayward, oblique, loose and jocular.
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