wayward

Definitions

Difficult to control or predict because of unusual or perverse behavior.

Turning or changing regularly; following no clear principle or course.

Disobedient, willful, or prone to straying from proper conduct.

Examples

The wayward teenager finally decided to return home after months of traveling alone.

A wayward gust of wind blew the papers off the desk and scattered them across the room.

The shepherd spent hours searching the hills for the wayward sheep that had wandered from the flock.

Synonyms

rebellious unruly willful errant capricious disobedient fickle

Antonyms

obedient compliant dutiful docile well-behaved steadfast predictable