froward

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fro=ward

CIDE DICTIONARY

froward, a. [Fro + -ward. See Fro, and cf. Fromward.].

 Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.  [1913 Webster]
"A froward man soweth strife."  [1913 Webster]
"A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation."

Syn. -- Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory; obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See Perverse.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

froward, adj. archaic perverse; difficult to deal with.

Derivative

frowardly adv. frowardness n.

Etymology

ME f. FRO + -WARD

THESAURUS

froward

balky, cantankerous, contrary, cross-grained, difficult, disobedient, indisciplined, irascible, lawless, naughty, nonconforming, obstinate, ornery, perverse, recusant, restive, self-willed, stuffy, sulky, sullen, transgressive, uncomplying, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, violative, wayward, willful, wrongheaded

ROGET THESAURUS

froward

Sullenness

N sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff, sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish.