'Wanton' definitions:
Definition of 'wanton'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt [syn: motiveless, unprovoked, wanton]
adjective
Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton]
noun
Lewd or lascivious woman
verb
Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle]
verb
Indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
verb
Spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away" [syn: wanton, wanton away, trifle away]
verb
Become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously [syn: luxuriate, wanton]
verb
Engage in amorous play
verb
Behave extremely cruelly and brutally
Definition of 'Wanton'
From: GCIDE
- Wanton \Wan"ton\, n.
- 1. A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment. [1913 Webster]
- I am afeard you make a wanton of me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Peace, my wantons; he will do More than you can aim unto. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet. [1913 Webster]
- Anything, sir, That's dry and wholesome; I am no bred wanton. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wanton'
From: GCIDE
- Wanton \Wan"ton\, a. [OE. wantoun, contr. from wantowen; pref. wan- wanting (see Wane, v. i.), hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of te['o]n to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, properly, ill bred. See Tug, v. t.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." --Spenser. "A wild and wanton herd." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A wanton and a merry [friar]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- [She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise! --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute. "Men grown wanton by prosperity." --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. [1913 Webster]
- Not with wanton looking of folly. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- [Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wanton'
From: GCIDE
- Wanton \Wan"ton\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wantoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Wantoning.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. [1913 Webster]
- Nature here wantoned as in her prime. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams! --Lamb. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wanton'
From: GCIDE
- Wanton \Wan"ton\, v. t. To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wanton'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- accident-prone,
- Adamic,
- 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,
- Casanova,
- 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,
- Don Juan,
- 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,
- 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,
- Lothario,
- 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,
- Paphian,
- 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