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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

stubbornly self-willed or done on purpose;

e.g. Destroying the building was a willful act of rebellion.

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Similar Words

Adamant

Adamantine

Anal

Anal-retentive

Arbitrary

Balky

Bullheaded

Conscious

Contrary

Contumacious

Deaf

Defiant

Deliberate

Dictatorial

Disobedient

Dogged

Foreseeable

Fractious

Froward

Hard

Hard-nosed

Headstrong

Hell-bent

High-handed

Immovable

Imperious

Implacable

Incompliant

Inconvincible

Indocile

Inequitable

Inflexible

Insubordinate

Intended

Intentional

Intractable

Intransigent

Monkeyish

Mulish

Noncooperative

Obdurate

Obstinate

Obstreperous

Opinionated

Pat

Peremptory

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pigheaded

Premeditated

Premeditative

Purposeful

Purposive

Rebel

Rebellious

Recalcitrant

Recusant

Refractory

Resistant

Restive

Retentive

Self-inflicted

Self-willed

Set

Stiff-necked

Stubborn

Unamenable

Unbending

Uncompromising

Uncontrollable

Uncooperative

Undisciplined

Ungovernable

Unhesitating

Unjust

Unmanageable

Unpunished

Unrelenting

Unruly

Untoward

Unyielding

Voluntary

Wayward

Willed

Witting

Wrongheaded

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Opposite Words

Abrupt

Accepting

Accidental

Accidentally

Acquiescent

Agreeable

Aimless

Amenable

Amiable

Arbitrary

Automatic

Balanced

Biddable

Casual

Catch-as-catch-can

Chance

Compliant

Compulsive

Compulsory

Conformable

Contingent

Cooperative

Courteous

Deferential

Desultory

Disciplined

Disinterested

Dispassionate

Docile

Driven

Equal

Equitable

Erratic

Ethical

Evenhanded

Extemporaneous

Fair

Flexible

Fluky

Forced

Fortuitous

Haphazard

Helter-skelter

Hit-or-miss

Honorable

Impartial

Impetuous

Impromptu

Impulsive

Inadvertent

Incidental

Instinctive

Involuntary

Irreproachable

Just

Knee

Knee-jerk

Law-abiding

Manageable

Mandatory

Mannerly

Mechanic

Mechanical

Moral

Necessary

Nondeliberate

Nonelective

Nonpartisan

Nonpurposive

Obedient

Objective

Obligatory

Obliging

Obsequious

Obsessive

Ordered

Orderly

Passive

Persuadable

Placable

Pliable

Pliant

Principled

Purposeless

Random

Reactive

Receptive

Required

Resigned

Respectful

Responsive

Ruly

Scattershot

Servile

Shotgun

Slapdash

Slavish

Spontaneous

Stray

Submissive

Subservient

Sudden

Supine

Teachable

Temperate

Tolerant

Tractable

Unbiased

Understanding

Unforced

Unforeseeable

Unimpeachable

Unintended

Unintentional

Unplanned

Unprejudiced

Unpremeditated

Unprompted

Unresistant

Unwilling

Unwitting

Visceral

Well-behaved

Well-bred

Willing

Yielding

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Related Words

Adamant

Adamantine

Advised

Anal-retentive

Argumentative

Arrogant

Austere

Authoritarian

Autocratic

Bad

Biased

Bloody-minded

Boisterous

Bound

Bullheaded

Calculated

Cantankerous

Capricious

Changeable

Commanding

Confirmed

Considered

Contentious

Contrary

Controversial

Contumacious

Decisive

Defiant

Demanding

Despotic

Determined

Difficult

Discourteous

Discretionary

Disobedient

Disorderly

Disputatious

Dissident

Do-or-die

Dogged

Dominant

Domineering

Dour

Elective

Errant

Erratic

Exacting

Fierce

Firm

Flinty

Forbidding

Fractious

Freakish

Freewill

Froward

Grim

Gruff

Hard-line

Hard-shell

Hardheaded

Haughty

Headstrong

Hell-bent

Hidebound

Ill-bred

Ill-mannered

Ill-natured

Immovable

Imperative

Impertinent

Implacable

Impolite

Impudent

Impulsive

Inconsiderate

Inconsistent

Incorrigible

Indocile

Indomitable

Inequitable

Inexorable

Inflexible

Insistent

Insolent

Insubordinate

Insurgent

Intent

Intractable

Intransigent

Inveterate

Invincible

Iron

Irrepressible

Lordly

Lowering

Masterful

Measured

Mercurial

Mischievous

Monkeyish

Mulish

Mutinous

Narrow-minded

Nonconformist

Noncooperative

Obdurate

Obsessive

Obstinate

Opinionated

Optional

Or

Ornery

Out

Overbearing

Partisan

Patient

Peevish

Persistent

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pigheaded

Polemic

Prejudiced

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepense

Presumptuous

Purposeful

Quarrelsome

Rambunctious

Rebellious

Recalcitrant

Refractory

Relentless

Resistant

Resolute

Rigid

Rough

Rowdy

Rude

Rugged

Self-imposed

Self-willed

Severe

Single-minded

Stark

Starkly

Steadfast

Steely

Stern

Stiff

Stiff-necked

Stouthearted

Strict

Stubborn

Studied

Tenacious

Thoughtful

Totalitarian

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Unappeasable

Unbending

Uncivil

Uncompromising

Unconquerable

Unconscionable

Uncontrollable

Uncontrolled

Uncooperative

Uncouth

Undisciplined

Unequal

Unethical

Unfair

Unflinching

Unforced

Ungentle

Ungovernable

Ungracious

Unjust

Unmanageable

Unmannerly

Unprincipled

Unpunished

Unrealistic

Unreasonable

Unregenerate

Unrelenting

Unruly

Unscrupulous

Unyielding

Voluntary

Volunteer

Wayward

Whimsical

Wild

Willing

Wrongheaded

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