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wayward

Posted on September 5, 2014September 3, 2014 by admin

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”)

 

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