OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20897

wayward

/ˈweɪwə(ɹ)d/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caprichoso • desobediente • díscolo
Given to wilful, perverse deviation from the expected norm; tending to stray.
Fancies are like shadows . . . you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work—one of the brightest intellects of the University, but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled.