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wayward
adj. variable; not easily controlled; changing, irregular; rebellious


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wayward
Adjective
1. resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"
(synonym) contrary, obstinate, perverse
(similar) disobedient



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Wayward
(a.)
Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
  

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wayward
Synonyms and related words:
Adamic, Paphian, 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, 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
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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wayward
wayward /'weiwəd/
tính từ ương ngạnh, bướng bỉnh (trẻ con...) hay thay đổi, bất thường (tính tình)
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