Synonyms for untowardness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uhn-tawrd, -tohrd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈtɔrd, -ˈtoʊrd |
Top 10 synonyms for untowardness Other synonyms for the word untowardness
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- disorderliness
- dole
- failure
- fractiousness
- haplessness
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- inconvenience
- indocility
- infelicity
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- unfortunateness
- ungovernableness
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unmanageability
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
- worry
Définition of untowardness
Origin :- 1520s, "not having inclination" (to or for something), also "difficult to manage, unruly," from un- (1) "not" + toward.
- noun unruliness
- noun misfortune
- Thus thinking, he ceased to murmur at the untowardness of Fate.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci » by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
- Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.
- Extract from : « The Last Chronicle of Barset » by Anthony Trollope
- I now acknowledge the untowardness of the situation; but when the boys laughed, I pooh-poohed it.
- Extract from : « John Marvel, Assistant » by Thomas Nelson Page
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