'Willful' definitions:
Definition of 'willful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Done by design; "the insult was intentional"; "willful disobedience" [syn: willful, wilful]
adjective
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful]
Definition of 'Willful'
From: GCIDE
- Willful \Will"ful\, a. [Will + full.] [Written also wilful.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder. --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
- In willful poverty chose to lead his life. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse. [1913 Webster] -- {Will"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Will"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'willful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advised,
- aimed,
- aimed at,
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- calculated,
- case-hardened,
- conscious,
- considered,
- contemplated,
- contumacious,
- decided,
- deliberate,
- deliberated,
- designed,
- determined,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- disobedient,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- elective,
- envisaged,
- envisioned,
- factious,
- fanatic,
- free,
- free will,
- froward,
- gratuitous,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- heady,
- independent,
- indisciplined,
- insubordinate,
- intended,
- intentional,
- intolerant,
- intractable,
- irresponsible,
- knowing,
- lawless,
- licentious,
- meant,
- meditated,
- mulish,
- mutinous,
- naughty,
- nonconforming,
- nonmandatory,
- obstinate,
- of design,
- offered,
- opinionated,
- optional,
- overzealous,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pigheaded,
- planned,
- proffered,
- projected,
- proposed,
- purposed,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- rampant,
- recusant,
- reinless,
- resolved,
- restive,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- self-willed,
- set,
- spontaneous,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- studied,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- teleological,
- tenacious,
- transgressive,
- unaccountable,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- unbridled,
- uncalled-for,
- unchecked,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- uncomplying,
- uncontrolled,
- uncooperative,
- uncurbed,
- undisciplined,
- unduteous,
- undutiful,
- unforced,
- ungoverned,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unregenerate,
- unreined,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unrestrained,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- violative,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- wayward,
- wildcat,
- willing,
- witting,
- wrongheaded