Synonyms of wayward

1 Syllable

lost, strayed

2 Syllables

willful, fickle, nighthawk, headstrong, impious, tippier, tippy, flighty, errant, froward, fractious, stubborn, tough-nut, mulish, balky, aimless, naughtiest, wicked, naughtier, wantons, wanton, freakish, deviant, naughty, dickens

3 Syllables

erratic, mischievous, rascally, ornery, wrongheaded, restive, unruly, unwilling, rebellious, hardline, inconstant, unguided, capricious, contrarious, vagarious, self-willed, unpliable, unstable, errable, delinquent, whimsical, uncheerful, aberrant, immoral, uncompliant, variable, contrary, judgmental, unsteady, changeable, cross-grained, vagabond, perverse

4 Syllables

ill-behaved, self-indulgent, dissolute, refractory, disobedient, disorderly, contumacious, humorsome, unredeemed, obdurate, indocile, unobliging, arbitrary, intractable, obstinate, recalcitrant

5 Syllables

unpredictable, incorrigible, indisciplined, undependable, ungovernable, undisciplined

6 Syllables

insubordinate, unaccommodating