Froward vs Peevish - What's the difference?
froward | peevish | Synonyms |
(archaic) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
* 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew :
* 1826 , George Crabb
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(label) Away from.
*, Bk.XIII, Ch.xvij:
*:Whan Sir Galahad herde hir sey so, he was adrad to be knowyn; and therewith he smote hys horse with his sporys and rode a grete pace froward them.
Constantly complaining; fretful, whining.
* , King Henry V , act 3, scene 7:
* 1813 , , Pride and Prejudice , ch. 41:
* 1917 , , "The Mixer" in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories :
Froward is a synonym of peevish.
As adjectives the difference between froward and peevish
is that froward is (archaic) disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition while peevish is constantly complaining; fretful, whining.As a preposition froward
is (label) away from.froward
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, / Is, that she is intollerable curst, / And shrow'd, and froward , so beyond all measure, / That were my state farre worser then it is, / I would not wed her for a mine of Gold.
- A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.
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citation, archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-31 , passage=… the Communist/Marxist/Progressive/Globalist meaning of the term "Forward" can more accurately be labeled as Froward'. … campaign slogan choice would better resemble the term "' Froward " rather than the term "Forward." }}
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* untowardDerived terms
* (l)Preposition
(English prepositions)Anagrams
*peevish
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* (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Orleans: What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!
- [T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish .
- At first he was quite peevish . "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."