weI wərd
1. difficult to control; willfully disobedient.
His wayward son had gotten himself suspended from school once again.
2. swayed by whim; unpredictable; capricious.
That odd sort of wayward mood I am speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke. (H. Melville, Moby Dick)
3. changing unpredictably; irregular.
Nobody learns where luck’s to be found. It comes and goes like a wayward breeze. (Sandy Brownjohn, “Canon”)