froward

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English froward, fraward, equivalent to fro +‎ -ward. Compare Old English fromweard, framweard (“turned away, having the back turned”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɹəʊ.(w)əd/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɹoʊ.ɚd/ Rhymes: (UK) -əʊəd === Adjective === froward (comparative more froward, superlative most froward) (archaic, literary) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition. 1553 (posth.), Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, Book I, Chapter 14: But in the meanwhile, for fear lest if he would wax never the better he would wax much the worse; and from gentle, smooth, sweet, and courteous, might wax angry, rough, froward, and sour, and thereupon be troublous and tedious to the world to make fair weather with; they give him fair words for the while and put him in good comfort, and let him for the rest take his own chance. ==== Synonyms ==== untoward ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Preposition === froward (obsolete) Away from. ==== Alternative forms ==== frowards === Anagrams === Forward, Warford, forward