Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Untoward   /əntuˈɔrd/  /əntəwˈɔrd/   Listen
adjective
Untoward  adj.  
1.
Froward; perverse. "Save yourselves from this untoward generation."
2.
Awkward; ungraceful. "Untoward words." "Untoward manner."
3.
Inconvenient; troublesome; vexatious; unlucky; unfortunate; as, an untoward wind or accident.


preposition
Untoward  prep.  Toward. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Untoward" Quotes from Famous Books



... about that. She felt too desperate to care; she felt in the grasp of fate. If the fate was to be untoward, so much the worse for her—and for Nigel. She meant to go beyond that ridge of the sand. That was all she knew. Quickly she buttoned the fur coat and put ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens
... The increased facilities which improved means of transit now offer to bachelors for running home on short leave have resulted in making the Anglo-Indian "spin" rather a drug in the market; and operating in the same untoward direction is the growing predilection on the part of the Anglo-Indian bachelor for other men's wives, in preference to hampering himself with the encumbrance of a wife of his own. Among other social products of India old maids are ...
— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes
... September day wore away with nothing untoward to alarm us, until late in the afternoon we saw smoke rising above the hills to the southwest. This meant that our devastating army was well on its way, and, as usual, laying waste the Indian towns and hamlets which its flanking riflemen discovered; and we all jumped ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... pleasant at any time, but this happened to come just at a critical moment when, although I had succeeded in making up my mind finally and decisively as to my own career, I was yet faint from a desperate struggle with certain untoward circumstances which it would not become me ...
— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims
... my dear madam, that what was intended to be a party of pleasure should commence with so untoward an event," he said. "Do allow my wife to examine your injured ankle—she is all tenderness and sympathy, and a gentle rubbing may perhaps restore it to its ...
— Clara Maynard - The True and the False - A Tale of the Times • W.H.G. Kingston


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org