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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Adamic, Paphian, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, backsliding, balky, cantankerous, capricious, carnal, chambering, changeable, changeful, contrary, cranky, cross-grained, crotchety, desultory, deviable, difficult, disobedient, dizzy, easy, eccentric, erratic, erring, fallen, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, fleshly, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, frail, freakish, froward, giddy, harebrained, humorsome, impetuous, impulsive, impure, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indisciplined, infirm, irascible, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, lapsed, lawless, lax, light, loose, loose-moraled, maggoty, mazy, mercurial, moody, motiveless, naughty, nonconforming, notional, obstinate, of easy virtue, of loose morals, ornery, peccable, perverse, petulant, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, quirky, rambling, recidivist, recidivistic, recusant, restive, restless, roving, scatterbrained, self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, slack, spasmodic, spineless, stuffy, sulky, sullen, temperamental, transgressive, unaccountable, unangelic, uncertain, unchaste, unclean, uncomplying, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unfixed, ungodly, ungood, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unrighteous, unsaintly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unvirtuous, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, violative, virtueless, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, weak, whimsical, whorish, willful, wishy-washy, wrongheaded

Dictionary Results for wayward:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

wayward
    adj 1: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite
           contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a
           perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary,
           obstinate, perverse, wayward]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wayward \Way"ward\, a. [OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned
   away. See Away, and -ward.]
   Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse;
   willful.
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         My wife is in a wayward mood.            --Shak.
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         Wayward beauty doth not fancy move.      --Fairfax.
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         Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought?   --Keble.
   [1913 Webster] -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.
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