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willful

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CIDE DICTIONARY

willfula. [Will + full.] [Written also wilful.].
  •  Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder.  Foxe.  [1913 Webster]
    "In willful poverty chose to lead his life."  [1913 Webster]
    "Thou to me
    Art all things under heaven, all places thou,
    Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

willful, US var. of WILFUL.

THESAURUS

willful

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

ROGET THESAURUS

willful

Will

N will, volition, conation, velleity, liberum arbitrium, will and pleasure, free will, freedom, discretion, option, voluntariness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, originality, pleasure, wish, mind, desire, frame of mind, intention, predetermination, selfcontrol, determination, force of will, voluntary, volitional, willful, free, optional, discretional, discretionary, volitient, volitive, minded, prepense, intended, autocratic, unbidden &c (bid), spontaneous, original, unconstrained, voluntarily, at will, at pleasure, a volonte, a discretion, al piacere, ad libitum, ad arbitrium, as one thinks proper, as it seems good to, a beneplacito, of one's won accord, of one's own free will, proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu, out of one's won head, by choice, purposely, deliberately, stet pro ratione voluntas, sic volo sic jubeo, a vostro beneplacito, beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere, Deus vult, was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden.

Obstinacy

N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, 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, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, 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, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.


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