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froward

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fro⋅ward

  [froh-werd, froh-erd]
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–adjective
willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME froward, fraward. See fro, -ward

Related forms:
fro⋅ward⋅ly, adverb
fro⋅ward⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
obstinate, willful, disobedient, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, difficult.

Antonyms:
docile, tractable.

Fro⋅ward

  [froh-werd, froh-erd]
–noun
Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
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fro·ward   (frō'wərd, -ərd)   
adj.  Stubbornly contrary and disobedient; obstinate.
fro'ward·ly adv., fro'ward·ness n.
Fro·ward   (frō'wərd, -ərd)   
The southernmost point of mainland South America, in southern Chile on the Strait of Magellan.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

froward 
O.E. fromweard "turned from or away," from from + -weard. Opposite of toward, it renders L. pervertus in early translations of the Psalms, and also meant "about to depart, departing," and "doomed to die."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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