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Word Meanings - SELF-WILLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.

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  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • HAZARDIZE
    A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
  • DESIGN
    drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
  • INTENTIONALITY
    The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • ABSOLUTENESS
    The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
  • HEADSTRONG
    1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
  • PRECONCERTED
    Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n.
  • PURPOSE
    1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
  • ARROGANTLY
    In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
  • DESPOTIC; DESPOTICAL
    Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness, n.
  • CHANCEFUL
    Hazardous. Spenser.
  • HEADSTRONGNESS
    Obstinacy. Gayton.
  • DELIBERATELY
    With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
  • DOMINEERING
    Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag. Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv.
  • PREMEDITATION
    The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.
  • DESIGNATOR
    An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
  • DESIGNATIVE
    Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
  • DELIBERATE
    1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."
  • FOREDESIGN
    To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
  • ARCHCHANCELLOR
    A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
  • AWAYWARD
    Turned away; away. Chaucer.
  • PERCHANCE
    By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
  • CROSS-PURPOSE
    A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
  • DISPURPOSE
    To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.

 

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