Dictionary Entry
wanton
wanton is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
- 2transitive verb
Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
- 3transitive verb
Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
- 4transitive verb
Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
- 5noun
A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
- 6noun
One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
- 7noun
A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
- 8intransitive verb
To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
- 9intransitive verb
To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
- 11noun
lewd or lascivious woman
- 12verb
behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- 13verb
engage in amorous play
- 14verb
become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
Synonyms
- 15verb
spend wastefully
"wanton one's money away"
- 16verb
indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- 17verb
waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- 18adjective
casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
"her easy virtue"
"he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"
- 19adjective
occurring without motivation or provocation- F.D.Roosevelt
"motiveless malignity"
"unprovoked and dastardly attack"
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