Froward

Definition: Froward

Froward

Adjective

1. Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.

Date "froward" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Froward \Fro"ward\, adjective. [Fro -ward. See Fro, and compare to Fromward.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Froward

Synonyms: headstrong (adj), self-willed (adj), wilful (adj), willful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sullenness	Cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Froward

English words defined with "froward": Chowter ♦ Enfroward ♦ Froppish ♦ Toward ♦ Untowardly. (references)

Etymologies containing "froward": Enfroward ♦ Frouzy. (references)

Domain	Title
References	Portuaria Cabo Froward SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A critical edition of Joseph Swetnam's The araignment of lewd, idle, froward, and unconstant women (1615) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Froward" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Froward" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

Country	Name
Chile	Portuaria Cabo Froward SA
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Language		Translations for "froward"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Ters (cranky, cross-grained, gruff, grumpy, impertinent, perverse, wayward). (various references)

Greek		Ανάγωγοσ, ίακότροποσ. (various references)

Hungarian		fejes (big bug, big noise, big pot, big wheel, big wig, boss, crackerjack, headed, leading man, mogul, panjandrum, top dog), megátalkodott (cussed, handful, impenitent, peevish, perverse), makacs (bullet-headed, bull-headed, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, dogged, dour, hard bitten, hard set, headstrong, hide-bound, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff, stiff necked, stubborn, stuffed shirt, tough, wrong-headed), lázongó, lázadozó, lázadó (insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutineer, mutinous, rebel, rebellious, revolting, rioter, riotous, seditious), konok (bullet-headed, hard-headed, intractable, mulish, obdurate, perverse, refractory, self willed, self-willed, stiff, stubborn, sullen), engedetlen (disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, rebellious, troublesome, unruly, unsubmissive), csökönyös (as stubborn as a mule, balky, bullet-headed, hide-bound, indocile, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, ornery, perverse, pigheaded, restive, rusty, wayward, wrong-headed). (various references)

Manx		frourtagh (freak, freakish, perverse, perverse person). (various references)

Pig Latin		owardfray

Romanian		Mofturos (dainty, demure, fastidious, finical, finicking, fractious, humoursome, naughty, nice, particular, peevish, perverse, picky, qualmish, squeamish), Capricios (arbitrary, capricious, cranky, crotchety, difficult, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, fitful, fractious, freakish, frolic, humoursome, peevish, perverse, vagarious, wanton, wayward, whimsical, whimsy). (various references)

Russian		упрямый (asinine, balky, baulky, bolshy, contrary, cross-grained, cussed, dogged, dour, hardbitten, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pertinacious, pig-headed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff necked, stiff-necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful). (various references)

Turkish		Ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), Serkeş (disobedient, disorderly, fractious, rebellious, rounder, strongheaded, unruly, wanton, wild), Dik Başlı (contrary, deaf, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, obstinate, pig-headed, stubborn, wayward), Ýnatçı (Randy), Aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references)

Vietnamese		ngoan cố (bullet-headed, dyed-in-the-wool, opinionated, pertaincious, recalcitrant, tenacious, unadvisable). (various references)

Welsh		traws (cross, perverse), anghyweithas (uncivil). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Wn ai triboi skoliai kai kampulai ai trociai autwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Quorum viae perversae et infames gressus eorum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Of whom the weies shreude, and yuel losid the goingys of hem.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 15
Cebuano	Nga mga baliko sa ilang mga dalan, Ug mga sukwahi sa ilang mga alagianan:
Croatian	kojih su staze krive i koji su opaki na svojim putovima;
Danish	de, som går krogede Stier og følger bugtede Spor -
Dutch	Welker paden verkeerd zijn, en afwijkende in hun sporen;
Finnish	joiden polut ovat mutkaiset ja jotka joutuvat väärään teillänsä. -
French	Qui suivent des sentiers détournés, Et qui prennent des routes tortueuses;
German	welche ihren Weg verkehren und folgen ihrem Abwege;
Hungarian	A kiknek ösvényeik görbék, és a kik az õ útaikban gonoszok.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Mereka curang dan cara hidup mereka serong.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	yang terbalik-balik jalannya dan bengkang-bengkok segala alurannya;
Italian	i cui sentieri sono tortuosi e le cui strade sono oblique,
Maori	He ara kopikopiko o ratou, he whanoke ratou i o ratou huarahi:
Norwegian	som går på krokete stier og følger vrange veier.
Portuguese	dos que são tortuosos nas suas veredas; e iníquos nas suas carreiras;
Rumanian	cari umblq pe cqrqri strkmbe, wi apucq pe drumuri sucite;
Russian	ЛПФПТЩИ � ХФЙ ЛТЙЧЩ, Й ЛПФПТЩЕ �'МХЦ�"БАФ ОБ УФЕЪСИ УЧПЙИ;
Spanish	cuyos senderos son torcidos y perversos sus caminos.
Swedish	från dem som gå på krokiga stiga och vandra på förvända vägar.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "froward": frowardly, frowardness, frowardnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "froward" (pronounced 'Fro"ward'): Aftward, Againward, Aukward, Awayward, Awkward, Ayenward, Bearward, Bedward, Deathward, Foreward, Forthward, Hayward, henceforward, landward, leeward, Leftward, Mornward, Nayward, Nightward, Overforward, Rereward, Rightward, Schoolward, Shoreward, skyward, straightforward, Sunward, Vanward, Vaward, Wayward, Woodward, Woolward. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: forward.
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-o-r-r-w"
	-1 letter: farrow.
	-2 letters: ardor, arrow, dwarf.
	-3 letters: dorr, draw, fado, fard, faro, fora, ford, frow, orad, orra, road, roar, ward, woad, word.
	-4 letters: ado, arf, daw, dor, dow, fad, far, for, fro, oaf, oar, ora, rad, raw, rod, row, wad, war.
	-5 letters: ad, ar, aw, do, fa, od, of, or, ow, wo.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-f-o-r-r-w"
	+1 letter: farrowed, forwards.
	+2 letters: afterword, forwarded, forwarder, forwardly, frontward, frowardly.
	+3 letters: afterwords, afterworld, forewarned, forwarders, forwardest, forwarding, frontwards.
	+4 letters: afterworlds, forwardness, frowardness.
	+5 letters: carryforward, foreshadower, henceforward, waterproofed.
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