willful as an adjective: - 1
- 2
willful
adjective
1 willful
2 willful
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
synonyms: froward, headstrong, self-willed, wilful.
Roget 606:
obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened;
inflexible
etc.
(hard)
323;
balky;
immovable,
unshakable,
not to be moved;
inert
etc.
172;
unchangeable
etc.
150;
inexorable
etc.
(determined)
604;
mulish,
obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed.
dogged;
sullen,
sulky;
unmoved,
uninfluenced unaffected.
willful,
self-willed,
perverse;
resty†,
restive,
restiff†;
pervicacious†,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly;
heady,
headstrong;
entete [Fr.];
contumacious;
crossgrained†.
arbitrary,
dogmatic,
positive,
bigoted;
prejudiced
etc.
481;
creed-bound;
prepossessed,
infatuated;
stiff-backed,
stiff necked,
stiff hearted;
hard-mouthed,
hidebound;
unyielding;
impervious,
impracticable,
inpersuasible†;
unpersuadable;
intractable,
untractable†;
incorrigible,
deaf to advice,
impervious to reason;
crotchety
etc.
608.
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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 ... show more.
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