What does protervity mean?
Protervity means (rare) wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness.
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness.
A vain and frail protervity, an envious prattling.
Use protervity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Protervity means (rare) wantonness; waywardness; petulance; peevishness.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A vain and frail protervity, an envious prattling.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.