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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Stubbornly contrary and disobedient; obstinate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Turned away; turned from: opposed to facing.
  2. Perversely inclined; wilful; refractory; disobedient; petulant; peevish.
  3. Marked by or manifesting perverse feeling; ill-natured; ungracious; caustic.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. archaic Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
  2. prep. obsolete Away from.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro +‎ -ward. (Wiktionary)

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  • rolig Compare the word untoward, which has a similar, though not identical, meaning ("inappropriate, unacceptable, etc.). Surely, the words must be derived from to and fro (which I guess meant originally "toward and away from"). Nov 14, 2011

  • AnWulf froward - (of a person) difficult to deal with; contrary.

    frowardly - adverb,
    frowardness - noun Nov 13, 2011

  • bilby
    Gaze no more on that killing eye,
    For fear the native cruelty
    Doom you, as it doth all, to die :

    For fear lest the fair object move
    Your froward heart to fall in love :
    Then you yourself my rival prove.

    - Thomas Carew, 'A Looking-Glass'. Jul 28, 2009

  • yarb Yes, this is a beaut. I'm going to start using this with my family as an admonishment. Nov 29, 2007

  • reesetee Oh, don't be so froward, chained_bear. ;-) Nov 29, 2007

  • chained_bear I love this word. Nov 29, 2007

  • reesetee I haven't heard this word spoken in ages, and then this morning there it was, in my audiobook. :-) Nov 29, 2007

  • minerva You don't know how many times I thought this was a typo for forward... Nov 29, 2007

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