'Wayward' definitions:
Definition of 'wayward'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Wayward'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- My wife is in a wayward mood. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
- Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought? --Keble. [1913 Webster] -- {Way"ward*ly}, adv. -- {Way"ward*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wayward'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Adamic,
- 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,
- Paphian,
- 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