wilfully

1. 1.

   in a willful manner

   “she had willfully deceived me”

   Synonymswillfully

Questions about wilfully

What does wilfully mean?

wilfully means "in a willful manner".

How many syllables are in wilfully?

wilfully has 3 syllables: wil-ful-ly. The stress falls on "wil". In IPA it is /ˈwɪlfəli/.

What is another word for wilfully?

Close synonyms include willfully. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wilfully a common word?

wilfully is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wilfully?