Thesaurus / wayward
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
One idea is that Phobos and Deimos are wayward asteroids that were captured by Mars.
THESE IMAGES EXPOSE THE DARK SIDE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDECOREY S. POWELLAUGUST 26, 2020NAUTILUS
But agitation unlocks wayward fancies and sends them scurrying inopportunely across the very foreground of the mind.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Mariamne had grown more fantastic, and capricious, and wayward than ever.
A large stone set in a secure place surely is a better boundary than a wayward stream whose course is changed by every freshet.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES
Observe the wayward boy whose chief inheritance is a wild, wilful nature.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUM
From this companionship a group of wayward children may be formed.
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MORAL DELINQUENCY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTSOSWALD CHETTLE MAZENGARB ET AL.
The talk about a professorship was in her estimation the wayward, humorous whim of an eccentric who was fond of solemn joking.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST
Lynn was a humored, wayward child, and this cold severity did more to quiet him than an hour's rhetorical pleading.
ALONEMARION HARLAND
Rosa was a spoiled, wayward child, freakish and mischievous, to whom liberty was too dear to be resigned without a sigh.
AT LASTMARION HARLAND
I like to think that this rare wayward and terrible creature of emotion was once an inhabitant of these walls.
A WANDERER IN PARISE. V. LUCAS
WORDS RELATED TO WAYWARD
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- tough-nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- absent
- adrift
- astray
- at sea
- cast away
- disappeared
- disoriented
- down the drain
- fallen between cracks
- forfeit
- gone
- gone astray
- hidden
- invisible
- irrecoverable
- irretrievable
- irrevocable
- kiss goodbye
- lacking
- minus
- mislaid
- misplaced
- missed
- nowhere to be found
- obscured
- off-course
- out the window
- strayed
- unredeemed
- vanished
- wandering
- wayward
- without
- arch
- artful
- bad
- bothersome
- damaging
- dangerous
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- dickens
- evil
- exasperating
- foxy
- frolicsome
- harmful
- hazardous
- holy terror
- hurtful
- ill
- ill-behaved
- impish
- injurious
- insidious
- irksome
- malicious
- malignant
- misbehaving
- naughty
- nocuous
- perilous
- pernicious
- playful
- precarious
- puckish
- rascal
- rascally
- risky
- rude
- sinful
- sly
- spiteful
- sportive
- teasing
- tricky
- troublesome
- vexatious
- vexing
- vicious
- wayward
- aberrant
- abnormal
- anomalous
- arbitrary
- bizarre
- capricious
- changeable
- desultory
- devious
- dicey
- directionless
- dubious
- eccentric
- fitful
- flaky
- fluctuant
- idiosyncratic
- iffy
- incalculable
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- irregular
- meandering
- mercurial
- nomadic
- oddball
- peculiar
- planetary
- rambling
- roving
- shifting
- spasmodic
- strange
- stray
- uncertain
- undirected
- unnatural
- unreliable
- unstable
- unusual
- vagarious
- variable
- volatile
- wayward
- weird
- whimsical
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- contrary
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pigheaded
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- set in stone
- tenacious
- tough
- tough-nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unruly
- unyielding
- wayward
- wild
- willful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.