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say it: WAY-wurd
wayward is an adjective meaning "resistant to guidance or discipline". It is pronounced /ˈweɪwɚd/ — WAY-wurd. It carries one recorded sense.
resistant to guidance or discipline
“Mary Mary quite contrary”
“an obstinate child with a violent temper”
“a perverse mood”
“wayward behavior”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wayward come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.