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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRO'WARD, a. [L. versus: turned or looking from.]
Perverse, that is, turning from, with aversion or reluctance; not willing to yield or comply with what is required; unyielding; ungovernable; refractory; disobedient; peevish; as a froward child.
They are a very froward generation, children in whom is no fair. Deutoronomy 32.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, turned away, froward, from fro from + -ward -ward Date: 13th century 1. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition 2. archaic adverse • frowardly adverb • frowardness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. archaic perverse; difficult to deal with. Derivatives: frowardly adv. frowardness n. Etymology: ME f. FRO + -WARD

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Froward Fro"ward, a. [Fro + -ward. See Fro, and cf. Fromward.] Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. --Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. --Bacon. Syn: Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory; obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See Perverse. -- Fro"ward*ly, adv. -- Fro"ward*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Fractious, perverse, contumacious, refractory, untoward, unyielding, ungovernable, disobedient, wayward, peevish, petulant, cross, captious.

Moby Thesaurus

balky, cantankerous, contrary, cross-grained, difficult, disobedient, indisciplined, irascible, lawless, naughty, nonconforming, obstinate, ornery, perverse, recusant, restive, self-willed, stuffy, sulky, sullen, transgressive, uncomplying, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, violative, wayward, willful, wrongheaded