willful Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite done by design
wilful.
- the insult was intentional
- willful disobedience
adjective satellite habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
wilful; headstrong; froward; self-willed.

Will + full.
Written also wilful.

Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder. Foxe.
In willful poverty chose to lead his life. Chaucer.

Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence. Milton.
Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse. -- Will"ful*ly, adv. -- Will"ful*ness, n.