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Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure:
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- Difficult to alleviate, remedy, or cure:
- Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition:
- Hard to work, manipulate, cure, treat, etc.
(Obs.) Wicked; bad; evil
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- (Obs.) Wicked; bad; evil
- Behaving disobediently or mischievously:
- Indecent; improper:
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obstinate
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In the habit of balking; stubbornly resisting
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- In the habit of balking; stubbornly resisting
- Given to stopping and refusing to go on:
- Difficult to operate or start:
Perverse; inimical.
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- Perverse; inimical.
- (Now Chiefly Dial.) Contrary; esp., perverse
(Music) Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval:
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- (Music) Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval:
- Opposed, as in character or purpose:
- Opposite in nature, order, direction, etc.; altogether different
Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish:
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- Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish:
- Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
- Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain:
Not capable of being endured, used, agreed to, etc. because disagreeable or unsuitable
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- Not capable of being endured, used, agreed to, etc. because disagreeable or unsuitable
- Not capable of being done easily or conveniently
- Extremely difficult to deal with or tolerate:
Having an ugly or mean disposition
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- Having an ugly or mean disposition
- Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.
- (Humorous, southern US) Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.
Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
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- Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Deviating from what is considered right or good; wrong, improper, etc. or corrupt, wicked, etc.; specif., sexually perverted
- Obstinately disobedient or difficult; intractable
Insistent upon having one's own way; headstrong, willful, disobedient, etc.
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- Insistent upon having one's own way; headstrong, willful, disobedient, etc.
- Difficult or impossible to manage, control, or keep in order:
- Deviating from what is desired, expected, or required, especially in being disobedient or in gratifying one's own inclinations:
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Find another word for froward. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for froward, like: disobedient, intractable, naughty, contrary, obstinate, balky, contrarious, contrary, difficult, impossible and ornery.
