wilful
/ˈwɪlfʊl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Knowingly or unknowingly, every therapist assumes that each client possesses the capacity to change through willful choice."
- "Mary had taken the whim into her willful head, and Jane could not dissuade her."
- "Let you not be taking it bad, Conchubor, but you’ll get little good seeing her this night, for with all my talking it’s wilfuler she’s growing these two months or three."
- "He was a youth to the end of his days, the heart of a boy with the head of a sage; the heart of a good boy, or a bad boy, but always a wilful boy, and wilfulest to show himself out at every time for just the boy he was."
- ""He's as willful as you," Rizpah said. "If you let him hurt himself again, so help me, I'll — ""
- "You had a pampered upbringing, and possessed enough of a willful streak that I wanted to slap you at times"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more wilful (comparative)
wilfuler (comparative)
wilfuller (comparative)
most wilful (superlative)
wilfulest (superlative)
wilfullest (superlative)
willful (alternative, US)
wilfull (alternative, archaic)