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wilfully

UK/ˈwɪlfəli/

wilfully adverb: willingly, of one's own free will.

Adverb

wilfully (comparative more wilfully, superlative most wilfully)

  1. (obsolete) Willingly, of one's own free will.
    • […]wilfully and comptly commit[…]1581, An Abstract of all the penal Statutes ... Collected by Fardinando Pulton, etc. B.L., England, page 227
    • Why then dost thou, O man, that of them all / Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine, / Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall [...]?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. Deliberately, on purpose.

wilfully meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

wilfully in Tamil

wilfully
வேண்டுமென்று vēṇṭumeṉṟu

wilfully in Urdu

عمداً, دھوکے سے, دیدہ و دانستہ

wilfully in Malayalam

മനസ്സറിയെ, സ്വമനസ്സാലെ, കരുതിക്കൂട്ടി

Forms of wilfully

comparativemore wilfully
superlativemost wilfully
alternative USwillfully

Origin of wilfully

From Old English wilfullīċe, corresponding to wilful + -ly.

Questions about wilfully

What does wilfully mean?
Wilfully means willingly, of one's own free will.
What is wilfully in Tamil?
Wilfully in Tamil is வேண்டுமென்று (vēṇṭumeṉṟu). See Wilfully meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wilfully?
Wilfully is an adverb.
How do you pronounce wilfully?
Wilfully is pronounced /ˈwɪlfəli/ (UK).

Words near wilfully in the dictionary

  1. Wilful Murder
  2. wilfuler
  3. wilfulest
  4. wilfuller
  5. wilfullest
  6. wilfully
  7. wilfulness
  8. wilfulnesse
  9. wilfulnesses
  10. wilga
  11. wilgas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilfully (page history and authors); வேண்டுமென்று (Tamil) (page history and authors); wilfully (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wilfully (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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