Wanton

Definition of Wanton

Wan´ton

a.	1.
	1.	Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. A wanton and a merry [friar]. - Chaucer. [She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved. - Milton. How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise! - Addison.
	2.	Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
	3.	Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. Not with wanton looking of folly. - Chaucer. [Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton. - Shak.
	4.	Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
n.	1.	A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; - used rarely as a term of endearment. I am afeard you make a wanton of me. - Shak. Peace, my wantons; he will do More than you can aim unto. - B. Jonson.
	2.	One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet. Anything, sir, That's dry and wholesome; I am no bred wanton. - Beau. & Fl.
	3.	A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
v. i.	1.	To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. Nature here wantoned as in her prime. - Milton. 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.
	2.	To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
v. t.	1.	To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.

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 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, weak, wench, whimsical, whisper sweet nothings, whoop it up, whore, whorish, wild, wishy-washy, wolf, woman chaser, womanize, womanizer

Browse

Wang
Wang tooth
Wangan
Wanger
Wanghee
Wango
Wanhope
Wanhorn
Waniand
Waning
Wanion
Wankle
Wanly
Wanned
Wanness
Wannish
Want
Wantage
Wanting
Wantless
-Wanton-
Wantonize
Wantonly
Wantonness
Wantrust
Wantwit
Wanty
Wany
Wanze
Wap
Wapacut
Wapatoo
Waped
Wapentake
Wapinschaw
Wapiti
Wapp
Wappato
Wappened
Wapper
Wappet

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z