awayward

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adverb

Turned aside.

Scrabble 18
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Meanings

adverbawayward (comparative more awayward, superlative most awayward)

comparative more awayward · superlative most awayward

  1. obsoleteTurned aside.
  2. obsoleteAway (of motion).

    And therewithall he groned pyteuously and rode a grete walop awaywarde from them untyll he cam undir a woodys evyse.

    1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII

Origin

From away + -ward.

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APA

awayward. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awayward

MLA

“awayward.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awayward. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awayward,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awayward.

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