wanton
n.
lewd or lascivious person; pampered person; one who is flirtatious
adj.
spiteful; arbitrary, unjustified; reckless, lawless; immoral, obscene; permissive; mischievous, playful; wasteful
v.
act lewd; behave wildly; waste irresponsibly
Wanton
wanton
Noun
1. lewd or lascivious woman
(hypernym) sensualist
(hyponym) light-o'-love, light-of-love
Verb
1. waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
(synonym) piddle, wanton away, piddle away, trifle
(hypernym) spend, pass
2. indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
(hypernym) live
3. spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"
(synonym) wanton away, trifle away
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
4. become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
(synonym) luxuriate
(hypernym) consume, squander, waste, ware
5. engage in amorous play
(hypernym) chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
6. behave extremely cruelly and brutally
(hypernym) act, behave, do
Adjective
1. occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt
(synonym) motiveless, unprovoked
(similar) unmotivated
2. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
(synonym) easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish
(similar) unchaste
Wanton
(v. t.)
Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
(v. t.)
Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
(v. t.)
To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
(v. t.)
Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
(v. t.)
Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
(v. i.)
To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
(v. i.)
To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
(n.)
One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
(n.)
A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
(n.)
A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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wanton
Synonyms and related words:
Adamic, Casanova, Don Juan, Jezebel, Lothario, Paphian, abandoned, accident-prone, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, backsliding, bad woman, baggage, bat, baton, be promiscuous, bill and coo, billy club, bitch, bludgeon, breakneck, broad, capricious, careless, carnal, carouse, celebrate, chambering, changeable, changeful, chase women, chippy, clitoromaniac, club, cocotte, commit adultery, contrary, coo, copulate, cranky, crotchety, cut loose, cyprian, dally, debauch, debauchee, desperate, desultory, deviable, devil-may-care, dissipate, dizzy, drab, easy, easy lay, easy woman, eccentric, erratic, erring, fallen, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, fleshly, flickering, flighty, flirt, flitting, floozy, fluctuating, fool, fornicate, frail, frail sister, freakish, furious, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, giddy, go-go, gratuitous, grisette, grovel, harebrained, harridan, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hell around, hotheaded, humorsome, hurried, hussy, hysteromaniac, immoderate, impetuous, impulsive, impure, inconsistent, inconstant, incontinent, indecisive, indulgent, infirm, intemperate, irregular, irrepressible, irresolute, irresponsible, jade, jezebel, jollify, jolly, kinky, lady-killer, lapsed, lark, lax, lead, let go, let loose, let off steam, libertine, licentious, light, live hard, lollygag, loose, loose woman, loose-moraled, lover-boy, mace, mad, maggoty, make love, make merry, make out, make whoopee, malevolent, malicious, mazy, mercurial, moody, motiveless, neck, nonrestrictive, notional, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, of easy virtue, of loose morals, out of control, out of hand, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, peccable, permissive, perverse, pet, petulant, philander, philanderer, pickup, pig, plunge into dissipation, postlapsarian, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prodigal, profligate, promiscuous, prostitute, quean, quirky, raise hell, rake, rakehell, rambling, rampant, recidivist, recidivistic, reckless, reinless, restless, revel, riotous, rip, roister, roue, rounder, roving, run riot, scatterbrained, see life, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shillelagh, shuffling, skirt chaser, skylark, slack, slap-bang, slapdash, slattern, sleep around, slut, smooch, spasmodic, spineless, spiteful, spoon, spree, step out, strumpet, sweet-talk, swing, swinger, tart, temperamental, toy, tramp, trifle, trollop, trull, truncheon, unaccountable, unangelic, unasked, unbridled, uncalled-for, uncertain, unchaste, unchecked, unclean, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unforced, ungodly, ungood, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreined, unreliable, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unrighteous, unruly, unsaintly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubdued, unsuppressed, unvirtuous, uteromaniac, vacillating, vagarious, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, virtueless, volatile, walking phallus, wallow, wandering, war club, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, wench, whimsical, whisper sweet nothings, whoop it up, whore, whorish, wild, wishy-washy, wolf, woman chaser, womanize, womanizer
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.