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Definitions for Wayward

[1] turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
[2] swayed or prompted by caprice; capricious: a wayward impulse; to be wayward in one's affections.
[3] turning or changing irregularly; irregular: a wayward breeze.
[4] wanting to have one's own way regardless of the wishes or good of others
[5] capricious, erratic, or unpredictable

Words related to Wayward

delinquent, rebellious, headstrong, capricious, unruly, recalcitrant, erratic, errant, aberrant, arbitrary, balky, changeable, contumacious, disobedient, disorderly, fickle, flighty, fractious, froward, immoral

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Origin of Wayward

1350–1400; Middle English; aphetic variant of awayward. See away, -ward

Other words from Wayward

way·ward·ly , adverb
way·ward·ness , noun
un·way·ward , adjective

Word origin for Wayward

C14: changed from awayward turned or turning away

Synonyms for Wayward

capricious, delinquent, errant, erratic, headstrong, rebellious, recalcitrant, unruly, aberrant, arbitrary, balky, changeable, contumacious, cross-grained, disobedient, disorderly, fickle, flighty, fractious, froward, immoral, inconstant, incorrigible, insubordinate, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, ornery, perverse, refractory, restive, self-indulgent, self-willed, stubborn, uncompliant, undependable, ungovernable, unpredictable, unstable, variable, whimsical, willful