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wayward
Synonyms and Antonyms of wayward
- had always been the most wayward of their three children
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, negativistic, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
fractious, restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild
perverse, resistant, wrongheaded
bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughty
discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly
- an institution to which wayward teens were often sent
Synonym Discussion of wayward
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- a contrary child
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- a perverse, intractable critic
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- tired soldiers growing restive
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- a balky witness
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- a school for wayward youths
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