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# willful

«willful» in Mova's school dictionary: **stubborn, doing what you want and refusing to be told** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more willful, most willful)

### meaning for a pupil

Willful means stubborn, doing what you want and refusing to be told. (US spelling of «wilful») [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/willful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a character who will not listen; in stories a willful child gets into trouble

### examples

- She was a willful girl who never listened to her mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/willful/#x1)
- The willful goat would not come home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/willful/#x2)
- "You willful boy, come here at once!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/willful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «willful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/willful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.