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発音

• IPA: /ˈweɪwə(ɹ)d/, enPR: wā'wərd
• 韻: -eɪwə(ɹ)d

形容詞

wayward (comparative more wayward, superlative most wayward)

1. Given to a wilful, perverse deviation from the expected norm; tending to stray.
   • 1904 June, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Three Students”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

     He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work—one of the brightest intellects of the University, but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled.

   • 1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Pointing of Duty”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 66:

     Fancies are like shadows . . . you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.

   • 2004 October 1, Helen Pilcher, “Laughter in the lab”, in Nature, →DOI:

     The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar. The prizes, which are the wayward son of the more righteous Nobels, are supposed to reward research that makes people laugh, then think.

2. Obstinate, contrary and unpredictable.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obstinate

3. (sports) Not on target.
   • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC‎:

     Bulgaria's only attacking weapon was the wayward shooting of Martin Petrov, whereas England's attacking options were awash with movement in the shape of Rooney, Young and Walcott.

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派生語

名詞

wayward (plural waywards)

1. (dated) Someone, especially a young woman or girl, who is wayward.
   • 1908 September 3, “The Real Lindsey”, in Journal of Education:

     the wild, half-starved youth whom we style incorrigibles, delinquents, and waywards

   • 1928, Leizer Grimberg, Emotion and Delinquency: A Clinical Study of Five Hundred Criminals in the Making:

     The girls classed as first offenders and waywards gave a higher intelligence quotient than the others.

   • 2000, John Joseph Thompson, Raised by Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll:

     What is "Christian rock?" It has been called everything from Jesus music to righteous rock to the devil's handiwork (the church can't sit idly by and let some waywards peddle "jungle music" in the name of the Lord without casting a little brimstone).

   • 2023 March 3, Nathan J. Robinson, quoting Hugh Ryan, “How Queer History Is Buried”, in Current Affairs‎:

     Disobedience and waywardism laws were pioneered on young women, and could be arrested as a disobedient or wayward at the age of 20.