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

1. transitive verb. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
2. transitive verb. Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
3. transitive verb. Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
4. transitive verb. Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
5. noun. A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
6. noun. One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
7. noun. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
8. intransitive verb. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
9. intransitive verb. To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
10. transitive verb. To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
11. noun. lewd or lascivious woman
12. verb. behave extremely cruelly and brutally
13. verb. engage in amorous play
14. verb. become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

    Synonyms: luxuriate

15. verb. spend wastefully

    "wanton one's money away"

16. verb. indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
17. verb. waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

    Synonyms: piddle, trifle

18. adjective. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

    "her easy virtue"

    "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"

    Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish

19. adjective. occurring without motivation or provocation- F.D.Roosevelt

    "motiveless malignity"

    "unprovoked and dastardly attack"

    Synonyms: motiveless, unprovoked

Synonyms

luxuriate, piddle, trifle, easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, motiveless, unprovoked

Common word forms

wantons, wantoned, wantoner, wantonly, wantonest, wantoning, wantonize, wantonness

Words from these letters

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