froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful
(adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
Source: WordNet® 3.1
froward (comparative more froward, superlative most froward)
(archaic, literary) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
• untoward
froward
(obsolete) Away from.
• Forward, Warford, forward
Source: Wiktionary
Fro"ward, a. Etym: [Fro + -ward. See Fro, and cf. Fromward.]
Definition: Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.
Syn.
– Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory; obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See Perverse.
– Fro"ward*ly, adv.
– Fro"ward*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
