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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈfɹəʊ.(w)əd/ [UK], /ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd/ [US] Audio: en-us-froward.ogg Forms: more froward [comparative], most froward [superlative]
Rhymes: (UK) -əʊəd Etymology: From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro + -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|froward}} Middle English froward, {{suffix|en|fro|ward}} fro + -ward, {{cog|ang|fromweard}} Old English fromweard Head templates: {{en-adj}} froward (comparative more froward, superlative most froward)
  1. (archaic, literary) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition. Tags: archaic, literary Synonyms: untoward Derived forms: unfroward Translations (Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable): опак (opak) (Bulgarian), вироглав (viroglav) (Bulgarian), egenrådig (Danish), déraisonnable (French), réfractaire (French), inmaîtrisable (French), désobéissant (French), immaîtrisable (French), eigensinnig (German), trotzig (German), trassig (Norwegian Bokmål), egenrådig (Norwegian Bokmål), ustyrlig (Norwegian Bokmål), ulydig (Norwegian Bokmål), ranc (Old English), greu de mulțumit (Romanian), refractar (Romanian), neascultător (Romanian), nestăpânit (Romanian), âsî (Turkish), dik başlı (Turkish), inatçı (Turkish), serkeş (Turkish)
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Preposition [English]

IPA: /ˈfɹəʊ.(w)əd/ [UK], /ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd/ [US] Audio: en-us-froward.ogg
Rhymes: (UK) -əʊəd Etymology: From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro + -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|froward}} Middle English froward, {{suffix|en|fro|ward}} fro + -ward, {{cog|ang|fromweard}} Old English fromweard Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} froward, {{en-prep}} froward
  1. (obsolete) Away from. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: frowards
    Sense id: en-froward-en-prep-o1SRXc2D Categories (other): English prepositions Disambiguation of English prepositions: 54 46

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1816, George Crabb, English Synonymes Explained, London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, page 133:",
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          "ref": "1824 June, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Redgauntlet, […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 50:",
          "text": "The old man […] began to suffer in the body as well as the mind. He had formed the determination of setting out in person for Dumfriesshire, when, after having been dogged, peevish, and snappish to his clerks and domestics, to an unusual and almost intolerable degree, the acrimonious humours settled in a hissing-hot fit of the gout, which is a well-known tamer of the most froward spirits, […]",
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          "text": "So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.",
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          "ref": "1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Innouations”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 140:",
          "text": "All this is true, if Time ſtood ſtill; which contrariwiſe moueth ſo round, that a Froward Retention of Cuſtome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innouation: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1816, George Crabb, English Synonymes Explained, London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, page 133:",
          "text": "A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1824 June, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Redgauntlet, […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 50:",
          "text": "The old man […] began to suffer in the body as well as the mind. He had formed the determination of setting out in person for Dumfriesshire, when, after having been dogged, peevish, and snappish to his clerks and domestics, to an unusual and almost intolerable degree, the acrimonious humours settled in a hissing-hot fit of the gout, which is a well-known tamer of the most froward spirits, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “[Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman] The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman. [Night 557.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VI, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 52:",
          "text": "So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954 November 11, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The King of the Golden Hall”, in The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1965, →ISBN, book III, page 126:",
          "text": "‘I owe much to Éomer,’ said Théoden. ‘Faithful heart may have froward tongue.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Jan Morris, Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…]most of its mansions, now sadly dingy, were built with American gold, and it was to this cold and froward city [Cuenca] […]that the last of the Aztec royal princes, Don Pedro, was brought to die.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Peter Marshall, Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story, Oxford Univ. Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] which so incensed this old hag that she grew as froward and sullen as the doctor, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition."
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        "(archaic, literary) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "literary"
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    }
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      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd/",
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        "US"
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    {
      "word": "untoward"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "opak",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "опак"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "viroglav",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "вироглав"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "egenrådig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "déraisonnable"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "réfractaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "inmaîtrisable"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "désobéissant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "immaîtrisable"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "eigensinnig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "trotzig"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "trassig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "egenrådig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "ustyrlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "ulydig"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "ranc"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "greu de mulțumit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "refractar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "neascultător"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "nestăpânit"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "âsî"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "dik başlı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "inatçı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable",
      "word": "serkeş"
    }
  ],
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}

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    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
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    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
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    "Rhymes:English/əʊəd",
    "Rhymes:English/əʊəd/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Old English translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations"
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        "2": "fromweard"
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          "ref": "1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xvii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Whan Sir Galahad herde hir sey so, he was adrad to be knowyn; and therewith he smote hys horse with his sporys and rode a grete pace froward them.",
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        "(obsolete) Away from."
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      "ipa": "/ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd/",
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    }
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}

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