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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.
Zygmunt Bauman

Meaning of "wayward" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WAYWARD

Changed from awayward turned or turning away.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WAYWARD

wayward  [ˈweɪwəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAYWARD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wayward is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WAYWARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wayward in the English dictionary

The definition of wayward in the dictionary is wanting to have one's own way regardless of the wishes or good of others. Other definition of wayward is capricious, erratic, or unpredictable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WAYWARD


awkward
ˈɔːkwəd
backward
ˈbækwəd
cityward
ˈsɪtɪwəd
downward
ˈdaʊnwəd
eastward
ˈiːstwəd
Edward
ˈɛdwəd
forward
ˈfɔːwəd
Hereward
ˈhɛrɪwəd
homeward
ˈhəʊmwəd
inward
ˈɪnwəd
leeward
ˈliːwəd
nayward
ˈneɪwəd
onward
ˈɒnwəd
outward
ˈaʊtwəd
skyward
ˈskaɪwəd
straightforward
ˌstreɪtˈfɔːwəd
upward
ˈʌpwəd
westward
ˈwɛstwəd
windward
ˈwɪndwəd
Woodward
ˈwʊdwəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAYWARD

waylay
waylayer
wayleave
wayleggo
wayless
waymark
waymarked
wayment
Wayne
waypoint
waypost
ways and means
Ways and Means Committee
wayside
waywardly
waywardness
waywiser
waywode
wayworn
wayzgoose

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAYWARD

Academy Award
afterward
award
come forward
coward
fashion-forward
fast forward
fast-forward
go-forward
Great Leap Forward
hayward
Howard
northward
put forward
reward
Seward
steward
store and forward
toward
ward

Synonyms and antonyms of wayward in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WAYWARD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «wayward» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of wayward

Translation of «wayward» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAYWARD

Find out the translation of wayward to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wayward from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wayward» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

任性的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

caprichoso
570 millions of speakers

English

wayward
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वच्छंद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الضال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

своенравный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

voluntarioso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিরঙ্কুশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rebelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jalan masuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

eigensinnig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

気まぐれな
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제멋대로인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wayward
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ương ngạnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒழுக்கமற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हट्टी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dik başlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

difficile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieobliczalny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

норовливий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

capricios
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δύστροπος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwars
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

egensinnig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sindig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wayward

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAYWARD»

The term «wayward» is quite widely used and occupies the 32.491 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAYWARD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wayward

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7 QUOTES WITH «WAYWARD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wayward.
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Zygmunt Bauman
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.
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Queen Elizabeth II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
3
David Lehman
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Tom Sizemore
I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.
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Malcolm Turnbull
If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
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Orson F. Whitney
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAYWARD»

Discover the use of wayward in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wayward and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
" Drawing on village court cases, hospital records, and women’s own raw, caustic , and darkly funny narratives, Wayward Women provides a riveting portrait of the way modernity engages with gender to produce new and contested ...
Holly Wardlow, 2006
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A Wayward Angel: The Full Story of the Hells Angels
We witness killings, million-dollar drug deals, and orgy-laced “picnics.” This is a story uniquely American. And it is a terrifying tale—because it’s real.
George Wethern, Vincent Colnett, 2008
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Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in ...
In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law.
Victoria Kahn, 2009
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Wayward One
No matter how safe she feels in his arms. Warning: This book contains a do-gooder heroine, an accidentally charming hero with tendencies toward caveman-itis, inappropriate household décor and fabulous sex against a wall.
Lorelie Brown, 2013
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Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young
A story that includes spiritualist seances, conspiracy, and an important church trial, Wayward Saints chronicles the 1870s challenge of a group of British Mormon intellectuals to Brigham Young's leadership and authority.
Ronald Warren Walker, 1998
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To Win His Wayward Wife
Not to be outdone by her sisters' marriage-producing scandals, quiet and withdrawn Madison Banks quickly finds herself walking down the aisle to a man who has secretly loved her for years.
Rose Gordon, 2012
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The Wayward Tourist
The Wayward Tourist republishes Mark Twain's Australian travel writing in which he recounts impressions of Sydney ('God made the Harbor a but Satan made Sydney') and his view of Australian history ('[it reads] like the most beautiful lies') ...
Mark Twain, 2007
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Wayward Son
The first novel in a series, Wayward Son propels the reader back in time, where epic adventures in Egypt, Greece, China and Rome collide with modern-day intrigue and suspense.
Tom Pollack, 2011
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Coping With the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology
Abandoning monolithic approaches and embracing the possibility of inconsistencies and incongruities in Greek thought, behaviour, and culture, this book investigates how ancient Greeks could validate the complementarity of dissonant, if not ...
Henk Versnel, 2011
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Dear Lupin...: Letters to a Wayward Son
Nostalgic, witty and filled with characters and situations that people of all ages will recognise, Dear Lupin is the entire correspondence of a Father to his only son, spanning nearly 25 years.
Mortimer Charlie, Roger Mortimer, Charlie Mortimer, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAYWARD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wayward is used in the context of the following news items.
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Wayward Pines postmortem: Who survived the finale?
After David Pilcher (Toby Jones) left Wayward Pines to fend for itself by turning off the power, Ethan (Matt Dillon) helped most of the town escape to headquarters ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
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Wayward Pines: “A Reckoning”
This Wayward Pines post is written from the point of view of someone who has not read the books the series is based on. As such, spoilers are strictly forbidden. «A.V. Club DC, Jul 15»
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Wayward Pines: “The Friendliest Place On Earth”
This Wayward Pines post is written from the point of view of someone who has not read the books the series is based on. As such, spoilers are strictly forbidden. «A.V. Club Austin, Jul 15»
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Mega Buzz: How Will the Wayward Pines Bombing Blow Up Ethan's …
Things took an explosive turn on last week's Wayward Pines when a bomb built by a group of insurgents inadvertently blew up a truck that was carrying Ethan's ... «TV Guide, Jul 15»
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Wayward Pines: "Betrayal" Review
Well that will teach the kids to go off sneaky around for extra biology credit, now won't it? Wayward Pines's "Betrayal" episode saw a fully aware Ethan Burke ... «IGN, Jul 15»
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Wayward Pines Guest Blog: Executive producer Chad Hodge …
Welcome back to Wayward Pines. Hey, maybe that's what the town's welcome sign should say. Welcome Back to Wayward Pines. That would have been good. «Entertainment Weekly, Jun 15»
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Exclusive Wayward Pines First Look: So, How Does the Town Work?
Indeed, Pilcher (Toby Jones) and Pam (Melissa Leo) were revealed to be at the top of the Wayward Pines food chain in the previous episode, when they ... «TV Guide, Jun 15»
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'Wayward Pines' digital companion series gives viewers a glimpse of …
FOX has been producing a digital companion series alongside its weekly “Wayward Pines” episodes and this week, since “Pines” is off due to the 2015 U.S. ... «Zap2it.com, Jun 15»
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Wayward Pines Boss Weighs In on the Biiiig Reveals, Book …
This week on Wayward Pines, midway through the Fox drama's 10-episode run, Ben Burke as well as viewers learned that the question we should have been ... «TVLine, Jun 15»
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Wayward Pines: “One Of Our Senior Realtors Has Chosen To Retire”
This Wayward Pines post is written from the point of view of someone who has not read the books the series is based on. As such, spoilers are strictly forbidden. «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jun 15»

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