wilful
UK: /wˈɪlfəl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
wilful /'wilful/- tính từ ((từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) willful)
- cố ý, chủ tâm
- wilful murder: tội cố sát
- cứng cổ, bướng, ngang ngạnh, ngoan cố
- a wilful child: một đứa trẻ bướng bỉnh
- cố ý, chủ tâm
Advanced English dictionary
(especially BrE) (AmE usually willful) adjective (disapproving)1 [usually before noun] (of a bad or harmful action) done deliberately, although the person doing it knows that it is wrong: wilful damage / neglect
2 determined to do what you want; not caring about what other people want: a wilful child
wilfully adverb: They were charged with wilfully neglecting their children.
wilfulness noun [U]: the wilfulness and arrogance of human nature
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 intentional, deliberate, voluntary, conscious, intended, purposeful, premeditated, US willful:
The jury decided that such a wilful act of vandalism must be punished. She is accused of wilful neglect of her children.
2 stubborn, headstrong, pigheaded, obstinate, mulish, inflexible, adamant, obdurate, intransigent, unyielding, self-willed, ungovernable, recalcitrant, unruly, immovable, intractable, dogged, determined, refractory, uncompromising, wayward, perverse, contrary:
Jim is far too wilful, and tends to have a tantrum if he fails to get his own way.
