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wilful /ˈwɪlfʊl / /ˈwɪlf(ə)l/(US also willful) adjective1(Of a bad or harmful act) intentional; deliberate: wilful acts of damage...- This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children.
- We control universal processes, as a willful act of mankind, through these discoveries.
- There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.
Synonyms deliberate, intentional, intended, done on purpose, premeditated, planned, calculated, purposeful, conscious, knowing; voluntary, volitional 2Having or showing a stubborn and determined intention to do as one wants, regardless of the consequences: a spoiled, wilful child...- Stubborn, willful, bold and determined, natives born into this combination all take themselves and their actions very seriously.
- They can also be willful, arrogant and stubborn.
- Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct.
Synonyms headstrong, self-willed, strong-willed, with a will of one's own, determined to have one's own way; obstinate, stubborn, as stubborn as a mule, mulish, pig-headed, bull-headed, refractory, recalcitrant, uncooperative, intractable, obstreperous, contrary, perverse, wayward, defiant, disobedient, ungovernable, unmanageable, rebellious, mutinous, insubordinate; Scottish thrawn informal cussed British informal bloody-minded, bolshie North American informal balky archaic froward, contumacious rare contrarious, renitent, pervicacious Derivatives wilfulness /ˈwɪlfʊlnəs / /ˈwɪlf(ə)lnəs/ noun ...- Is it willfulness, stubbornness, or just an attempt to be in control at the expense of everything and everyone else?
- Sometimes Jaime drove his parents to distraction with his willfulness, and some nights, when he would not sleep - he was so busy watching the world outside and wondering what more there was to see - they lost their tempers.
- Too much attention given to the only child in a family not only blinds parents' ability to reason and clouds their judgement, it also encourages the child's willfulness.
Origin Middle English: from the noun will2 + -ful. |