What does wilful mean?
Wilful means Intentional; deliberate..
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/ˈwɪlfʊl/ · adjective
Intentional; deliberate..
Knowingly or unknowingly, every therapist assumes that each client possesses the capacity to change through willful choice.
Mary had taken the whim into her willful head, and Jane could not dissuade her.
Let you not be taking it bad, Conchubor, but you’ll get little good seeing her this night, for with all my talking it’s wilfuler she’s growing these two months or three.
He was a youth to the end of his days, the heart of a boy with the head of a sage; the heart of a good boy, or a bad boy, but always a wilful boy, and wilfulest to show himself out at every time for just the boy he was.
"He's as willful as you," Rizpah said. "If you let him hurt himself again, so help me, I'll — "
You had a pampered upbringing, and possessed enough of a willful streak that I wanted to slap you at times
Use wilful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wilful means Intentional; deliberate..
Common synonyms include volitional, voluntary, advertent, conscious.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Knowingly or unknowingly, every therapist assumes that each client possesses the capacity to change through willful choice.
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