Wilful

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  • adjective. undefined
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Willing; ready; eager; keen.
  • Due to one's own will; spontaneous; voluntary; deliberate; intentional: as, wilful murder; wilful waste.
  • Obstinate and unreasonable; not to be moved from one's notions, inclinations, purposes, or the like, by counsel, advice, commands, or instructions; obstinate; stubborn; refractory; wayward; inflexible: as, a wilful man; a wilful horse.
  • Synonyms Untoward, Contrary, etc. (see wayward), self-willed, mulish, intractable, headstrong, unruly, heady.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • See willful, willfully, and willfulness.
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  • adjective. intentional; deliberate
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. done by design
  • adjective. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
    • Word Usage
    "In the select committee today, Adrian Sanders asked the Murdochs if they were familiar with the term 'wilful blindness'."
    cross-reference
    wilful fire-raising  
    Equivalent
    disobedient  voluntary  wilfully  wilfulness  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    capricious  flagrant  gross  headstrong  insolent  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    voluntary  
    variant
    willful  willfully  willfulness  
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