Word Meanings - FROWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon. Syn.
Additional info about word: FROWARD
Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon. Syn. -- Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory; obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See Perverse. -- Fro"ward*ly, adv. -- Fro"ward*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FROWARD)
- Naughty
- Worthless
- vile
- corrupt
- bad
- froward
- refractory
- wicked
- perverse
- Perverse
- Froward
- untoward
- stubborn
- fractious
- wayward
- unmanageable
- intractable
- crochety
- Wayward
- Willful
- disobedient
- obstinate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FROWARD)
Related words: (words related to FROWARD)
- PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - AMELIORATE
To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age. - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - CORRUPTIBLE
1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. - CORRECTORY
Containing or making correction; corrective. - WICKER
1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as - CORRECTIFY
To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl. - WICKEDLY
In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally. I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. 2 Sam. xxiv. 17. - CORRUPTION
1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject - BETTERMOST
Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham. - CORRUPTIVE
Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray. - OBSTINATE
a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob + a word from the 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness. - CORRECTIBLE; CORRECTABLE
Capable of being corrected. - DISOBEDIENTLY
In a disobedient manner. - CORRECTNESS
The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety. - REPAIRABLE
Reparable. Gauden. - PERVERSENESS
The quality or state of being perverse. "Virtue hath some perverseness." Donne. - DISOBEDIENT
1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. - UNTOWARDLY
Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke. - BRUNSWICK GREEN
An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. - BAILIWICK
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority. - INCORRECT
1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not - UNCORRUPTIBLE
Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i. - BRUNSWICK BLACK
See BLACK - AWAYWARD
Turned away; away. Chaucer. - REPURIFY
To purify again. - INCORRUPTION
The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. - ABETTER; ABETTOR
One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor - INCORRUPTED
Uncorrupted. Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies. - DISREPAIR
A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.