Wanton

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Lascivious or promiscuous. Used especially of women.
  • adjective. Exciting or expressing sexual desire.
  • adjective. Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust.
  • adjective. Unrestrainedly excessive.
  • adjective. Luxuriant; overabundant.
  • adjective. Frolicsome; playful.
  • adjective. Rebellious; refractory.
  • intransitive verb. To behave in a wanton manner; act lasciviously.
  • intransitive verb. To move idly or playfully.
  • noun. One, especially a woman, who is licentious or promiscuous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To revel; frolic unrestrainedly; sport.
  • To sport or dally in lewdness; sport lasciviously.
  • To make wanton.
  • To spend or waste in wantonness.
  • Ill brought up; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, free from moral control.
  • Characterized by extreme recklessness, fool-hardiness, or heartlessness; malicious; recklessly disregardful of right or of consequences: applied both to persons and to their acts.
  • Wild; unruly; loose; unrestrained.
  • Playful; sportive; frolicsome.
  • Rank; luxuriant.
  • Characterized by unrestrained indulgence of the natural impulses or appetites; dissolute; licentious.
  • Particularly, unchaste; lascivious; libidinous; lustful; lewd.
  • noun. A pampered, petted creature; one spoiled by fondness or indulgence; also, a frolicsome, roving, sportive creature; a trifier: used sometimes as a term of endearment.
  • noun. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
  • intransitive verb. To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
  • noun. A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
  • noun. One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
  • noun. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
  • adjective. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
  • adjective. Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
  • adjective. Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
  • adjective. Reckless; heedless.
  • transitive verb. To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
  • adjective. Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
  • adjective. Playful, sportive; being merry or carefree (often used figuratively).
  • adjective. Self-indulgent, fond of excess; luxurious.
  • adjective. Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
  • adjective. Extravagant, unrestrained; excessive (of speech or thought).
  • noun. A pampered or coddled person.
  • noun. An overly playful person.
  • noun. A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
  • noun. A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
  • verb. To act wantonly; become wanton.
  • verb. To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (often with away).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. lewd or lascivious woman
  • verb. spend wastefully
  • verb. behave extremely cruelly and brutally
  • adjective. occurring without motivation or provocation
  • Word Usage
    "V. ii.310 (340,7) you make a wanton of me] A _wanton_ was, a man feeble and effeminate."
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