Definition of wilful in English:

wilful

(US willful)

adjective ˈwɪlfʊlˈwɪlf(ə)lˈwɪlfəl

1(of a bad or harmful act) intentional; deliberate.
（不道德或非法行为或遗漏）故意的，有意的，存心的
wilful acts of damage
蓄意破坏行为。
Example sentencesExamples
- We control universal processes, as a willful act of mankind, through these discoveries.
- Is there a danger of much being lost or obscured from either willful or unintentional neglect?
- They must now prepare for a criminal trial within months, long after they were charged with wilful neglect in public office.
- He also criticised the failure of the Government to give full effect to the Children's Act 2001 which deals with willful neglect by parents.
- This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children.
- Even when others act where you have not done so, you continue with your willful neglect in the face of crisis and misery.
- Several were notorious for their willful neglect of logistic matters.
- It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission.
- One cannot justify the willful and callous act of deliberately choosing to remove the shells of conscious crabs and allowing the animals to writhe in a hot pan, cooking them to death as they struggle.
- But he is given immunity for the deliberate, wilful telling of a falsehood.
- This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.
- She was found not guilty of a third charge of wilful neglect.
- Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated.
- They depict revolutions as willful acts of rebellion that inevitably produce terrible results because of the evil inherent in the very idea of revolution.
- There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.
- In Brian's life, there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience.
- As the article pointed out, a pet was ‘murdered,’ killed by wilful and deliberate action.
- Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place.
- She stated that the unauthorized access of the voicemail system was willful and intentional.
- Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings.
Synonyms
deliberate, intentional, intended, done on purpose, premeditated, planned, calculated, purposeful, conscious, knowing
voluntary, volitional
2Having or showing a stubborn and determined intention to do as one wants, regardless of the consequences.
任性的，固执的，执拗的
a spoiled, wilful child
Example sentencesExamples
- It seems his muse, once so pliable, has become perverse and wilful: I commiserate.
- Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct.
- It is the child of a restaurant (rather than an outlet of a company) and is thus wilful, original and headstrong as well as undeniably related.
- I laughed at loud at her stubborn and willful spirit.
- The newly married couple was very happy, although many people warned the kindly man about the willful and headstrong nature of his new step-daughter.
- As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
- She's willful, quiet, and stubborn, but, above all, passionate.
- For years they give you not a jot of trouble, then, wham, they turn into wilful risk-takers who fall in love with little regard for the consequences.
- Alice had been willful and headstrong practically from birth.
- They can also be willful, arrogant and stubborn.
- First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter.
- We can take the Middle Path and preserve our freedom without acting like stubborn and willful children every time we are asked to obey the rules.
- ‘I was determined, wilful, quietly making my own decisions and forging my own path,’ she says.
- Is it her willful, contrary nature that comes out?
- Stubborn and willful were among the many words that described the beautiful woman in front of him.
- All describe Scorpio as intense, wilful and determined, yet most of our Scorpios are classed as Librans by the siderealists!
- Stubborn, willful, bold and determined, natives born into this combination all take themselves and their actions very seriously.
- Here's the advice that helped me raise two willful and determined kids into delightful and productive adults.
- He is willful and greatly determined, stubborn and close-minded, but a born leader.
- Dash is willful and disobedient because he's bored - he wants to use his super-speed to excel in sports.
Synonyms
headstrong, self-willed, strong-willed, with a will of one's own, determined to have one's own way
obstinate, stubborn, as stubborn as a mule, mulish, pig-headed, bull-headed, refractory, recalcitrant, uncooperative, intractable, obstreperous, contrary, perverse, wayward, defiant, disobedient, ungovernable, unmanageable, rebellious, mutinous, insubordinate
Scottish thrawn
informal cussed
British informal bloody-minded, bolshie
North American informal balky
archaic froward, contumacious
rare contrarious, renitent, pervicacious

Derivatives

wilfulness

noun ˈwɪlfʊlnəsˈwɪlf(ə)lnəsˈwɪlfəlnəs

Is it willfulness, stubbornness, or just an attempt to be in control at the expense of everything and everyone else?
Example sentencesExamples
- Too much attention given to the only child in a family not only blinds parents' ability to reason and clouds their judgement, it also encourages the child's willfulness.
- This sort of undertaking is not an exercise in constitutional interpretation but an act of judicial willfulness that has no logical stopping point.
- I have a fellow feeling for the absent-minded who are accused of wilfulness.
- Sometimes Jaime drove his parents to distraction with his willfulness, and some nights, when he would not sleep - he was so busy watching the world outside and wondering what more there was to see - they lost their tempers.

Origin

Middle English: from the noun will² + -ful.

Definition of willful in US English:

willful

(also wilful)

adjectiveˈwilfəlˈwɪlfəl

1(of an immoral or illegal act or omission) intentional; deliberate.
（不道德或非法行为或遗漏）故意的，有意的，存心的
willful acts of damage
蓄意破坏行为。
Example sentencesExamples
- Is there a danger of much being lost or obscured from either willful or unintentional neglect?
- She was found not guilty of a third charge of wilful neglect.
- Even when others act where you have not done so, you continue with your willful neglect in the face of crisis and misery.
- It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission.
- This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.
- One cannot justify the willful and callous act of deliberately choosing to remove the shells of conscious crabs and allowing the animals to writhe in a hot pan, cooking them to death as they struggle.
- They depict revolutions as willful acts of rebellion that inevitably produce terrible results because of the evil inherent in the very idea of revolution.
- She stated that the unauthorized access of the voicemail system was willful and intentional.
- He also criticised the failure of the Government to give full effect to the Children's Act 2001 which deals with willful neglect by parents.
- In Brian's life, there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience.
- Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place.
- There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.
- We control universal processes, as a willful act of mankind, through these discoveries.
- Several were notorious for their willful neglect of logistic matters.
- This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children.
- But he is given immunity for the deliberate, wilful telling of a falsehood.
- As the article pointed out, a pet was ‘murdered,’ killed by wilful and deliberate action.
- Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings.
- They must now prepare for a criminal trial within months, long after they were charged with wilful neglect in public office.
- Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated.
Synonyms
deliberate, intentional, intended, done on purpose, premeditated, planned, calculated, purposeful, conscious, knowing
1. 1.1 Having or showing a stubborn and determined intention to do as one wants, regardless of the consequences or effects.
  任性的，固执的，执拗的
  the pettish, willful side of him
  他的任性和固执的一面。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dash is willful and disobedient because he's bored - he wants to use his super-speed to excel in sports.
  For years they give you not a jot of trouble, then, wham, they turn into wilful risk-takers who fall in love with little regard for the consequences.
  Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct.
  As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
  It is the child of a restaurant (rather than an outlet of a company) and is thus wilful, original and headstrong as well as undeniably related.
  The newly married couple was very happy, although many people warned the kindly man about the willful and headstrong nature of his new step-daughter.
  ‘I was determined, wilful, quietly making my own decisions and forging my own path,’ she says.
  Here's the advice that helped me raise two willful and determined kids into delightful and productive adults.
  They can also be willful, arrogant and stubborn.
  First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter.
  Alice had been willful and headstrong practically from birth.
  All describe Scorpio as intense, wilful and determined, yet most of our Scorpios are classed as Librans by the siderealists!
  She's willful, quiet, and stubborn, but, above all, passionate.
  Stubborn, willful, bold and determined, natives born into this combination all take themselves and their actions very seriously.
  It seems his muse, once so pliable, has become perverse and wilful: I commiserate.
  Is it her willful, contrary nature that comes out?
  Stubborn and willful were among the many words that described the beautiful woman in front of him.
  He is willful and greatly determined, stubborn and close-minded, but a born leader.
  We can take the Middle Path and preserve our freedom without acting like stubborn and willful children every time we are asked to obey the rules.
  I laughed at loud at her stubborn and willful spirit.
  Synonyms
  headstrong, self-willed, strong-willed, with a will of one's own, determined to have one's own way

Origin

Middle English: from the noun will + -ful.

词汇	wilful
释义	Definition of wilful in English: wilful (US willful) adjective ˈwɪlfʊlˈwɪlf(ə)lˈwɪlfəl 1(of a bad or harmful act) intentional; deliberate. （不道德或非法行为或遗漏）故意的，有意的，存心的 wilful acts of damage 蓄意破坏行为。 Example sentencesExamples We control universal processes, as a willful act of mankind, through these discoveries. Is there a danger of much being lost or obscured from either willful or unintentional neglect? They must now prepare for a criminal trial within months, long after they were charged with wilful neglect in public office. He also criticised the failure of the Government to give full effect to the Children's Act 2001 which deals with willful neglect by parents. This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children. Even when others act where you have not done so, you continue with your willful neglect in the face of crisis and misery. Several were notorious for their willful neglect of logistic matters. It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission. One cannot justify the willful and callous act of deliberately choosing to remove the shells of conscious crabs and allowing the animals to writhe in a hot pan, cooking them to death as they struggle. But he is given immunity for the deliberate, wilful telling of a falsehood. This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money. She was found not guilty of a third charge of wilful neglect. Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated. They depict revolutions as willful acts of rebellion that inevitably produce terrible results because of the evil inherent in the very idea of revolution. There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia. In Brian's life, there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience. As the article pointed out, a pet was ‘murdered,’ killed by wilful and deliberate action. Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place. She stated that the unauthorized access of the voicemail system was willful and intentional. Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings. Synonyms deliberate, intentional, intended, done on purpose, premeditated, planned, calculated, purposeful, conscious, knowing voluntary, volitional 2Having or showing a stubborn and determined intention to do as one wants, regardless of the consequences. 任性的，固执的，执拗的 a spoiled, wilful child Example sentencesExamples It seems his muse, once so pliable, has become perverse and wilful: I commiserate. Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct. It is the child of a restaurant (rather than an outlet of a company) and is thus wilful, original and headstrong as well as undeniably related. I laughed at loud at her stubborn and willful spirit. The newly married couple was very happy, although many people warned the kindly man about the willful and headstrong nature of his new step-daughter. As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny. She's willful, quiet, and stubborn, but, above all, passionate. For years they give you not a jot of trouble, then, wham, they turn into wilful risk-takers who fall in love with little regard for the consequences. Alice had been willful and headstrong practically from birth. They can also be willful, arrogant and stubborn. First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter. We can take the Middle Path and preserve our freedom without acting like stubborn and willful children every time we are asked to obey the rules. ‘I was determined, wilful, quietly making my own decisions and forging my own path,’ she says. Is it her willful, contrary nature that comes out? Stubborn and willful were among the many words that described the beautiful woman in front of him. All describe Scorpio as intense, wilful and determined, yet most of our Scorpios are classed as Librans by the siderealists! Stubborn, willful, bold and determined, natives born into this combination all take themselves and their actions very seriously. Here's the advice that helped me raise two willful and determined kids into delightful and productive adults. He is willful and greatly determined, stubborn and close-minded, but a born leader. Dash is willful and disobedient because he's bored - he wants to use his super-speed to excel in sports. Synonyms headstrong, self-willed, strong-willed, with a will of one's own, determined to have one's own way obstinate, stubborn, as stubborn as a mule, mulish, pig-headed, bull-headed, refractory, recalcitrant, uncooperative, intractable, obstreperous, contrary, perverse, wayward, defiant, disobedient, ungovernable, unmanageable, rebellious, mutinous, insubordinate Scottish thrawn informal cussed British informal bloody-minded, bolshie North American informal balky archaic froward, contumacious rare contrarious, renitent, pervicacious Derivatives wilfulness noun ˈwɪlfʊlnəsˈwɪlf(ə)lnəsˈwɪlfəlnəs Is it willfulness, stubbornness, or just an attempt to be in control at the expense of everything and everyone else? Example sentencesExamples Too much attention given to the only child in a family not only blinds parents' ability to reason and clouds their judgement, it also encourages the child's willfulness. This sort of undertaking is not an exercise in constitutional interpretation but an act of judicial willfulness that has no logical stopping point. I have a fellow feeling for the absent-minded who are accused of wilfulness. Sometimes Jaime drove his parents to distraction with his willfulness, and some nights, when he would not sleep - he was so busy watching the world outside and wondering what more there was to see - they lost their tempers. Origin Middle English: from the noun will² + -ful. Definition of willful in US English: willful (also wilful) adjectiveˈwilfəlˈwɪlfəl US 1(of an immoral or illegal act or omission) intentional; deliberate. （不道德或非法行为或遗漏）故意的，有意的，存心的 willful acts of damage 蓄意破坏行为。 Example sentencesExamples Is there a danger of much being lost or obscured from either willful or unintentional neglect? She was found not guilty of a third charge of wilful neglect. Even when others act where you have not done so, you continue with your willful neglect in the face of crisis and misery. It means wilful act or omission, negligent act or omission, or malicious act or omission. This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money. One cannot justify the willful and callous act of deliberately choosing to remove the shells of conscious crabs and allowing the animals to writhe in a hot pan, cooking them to death as they struggle. They depict revolutions as willful acts of rebellion that inevitably produce terrible results because of the evil inherent in the very idea of revolution. She stated that the unauthorized access of the voicemail system was willful and intentional. He also criticised the failure of the Government to give full effect to the Children's Act 2001 which deals with willful neglect by parents. In Brian's life, there was no unbelief or willful rebellion or willful acts of disobedience. Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place. There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia. We control universal processes, as a willful act of mankind, through these discoveries. Several were notorious for their willful neglect of logistic matters. This willful act was in direct violation of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on children. But he is given immunity for the deliberate, wilful telling of a falsehood. As the article pointed out, a pet was ‘murdered,’ killed by wilful and deliberate action. Secondly, the party disobeying the contempt order must do so in a deliberate and willful fashion in order to satisfy the criminal nature of the contempt proceedings. They must now prepare for a criminal trial within months, long after they were charged with wilful neglect in public office. Well, clearly, to be murder in the first degree in California, it has to be willful, deliberate or premeditated. Synonyms deliberate, intentional, intended, done on purpose, premeditated, planned, calculated, purposeful, conscious, knowing 1.1 Having or showing a stubborn and determined intention to do as one wants, regardless of the consequences or effects. 任性的，固执的，执拗的 the pettish, willful side of him 他的任性和固执的一面。 Example sentencesExamples Dash is willful and disobedient because he's bored - he wants to use his super-speed to excel in sports. For years they give you not a jot of trouble, then, wham, they turn into wilful risk-takers who fall in love with little regard for the consequences. Stubbornly self-righteous and willful, Higgins demonstrates his ideals in his brazen disregard for the Victorian rules of conduct. As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny. It is the child of a restaurant (rather than an outlet of a company) and is thus wilful, original and headstrong as well as undeniably related. The newly married couple was very happy, although many people warned the kindly man about the willful and headstrong nature of his new step-daughter. ‘I was determined, wilful, quietly making my own decisions and forging my own path,’ she says. Here's the advice that helped me raise two willful and determined kids into delightful and productive adults. They can also be willful, arrogant and stubborn. First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter. Alice had been willful and headstrong practically from birth. All describe Scorpio as intense, wilful and determined, yet most of our Scorpios are classed as Librans by the siderealists! She's willful, quiet, and stubborn, but, above all, passionate. Stubborn, willful, bold and determined, natives born into this combination all take themselves and their actions very seriously. It seems his muse, once so pliable, has become perverse and wilful: I commiserate. Is it her willful, contrary nature that comes out? Stubborn and willful were among the many words that described the beautiful woman in front of him. He is willful and greatly determined, stubborn and close-minded, but a born leader. We can take the Middle Path and preserve our freedom without acting like stubborn and willful children every time we are asked to obey the rules. I laughed at loud at her stubborn and willful spirit. Synonyms headstrong, self-willed, strong-willed, with a will of one's own, determined to have one's own way Origin Middle English: from the noun will + -ful.
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