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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. 1transitive verb

    Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

  2. 2transitive verb

    Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.

  3. 3transitive verb

    Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.

  4. 4transitive verb

    Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.

  5. 5noun

    A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.

  6. 6noun

    One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.

  7. 7noun

    A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.

  8. 8intransitive verb

    To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.

  9. 9intransitive verb

    To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.

  10. 10transitive verb

    To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.

  11. 11noun

    lewd or lascivious woman

  12. 12verb

    behave extremely cruelly and brutally

  13. 13verb

    engage in amorous play

  14. 14verb

    become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

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  15. 15verb

    spend wastefully

    "wanton one's money away"

  16. 16verb

    indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life

  17. 17verb

    waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

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  18. 18adjective

    casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

    "her easy virtue"

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

  19. 19adjective

    occurring without motivation or provocation- F.D.Roosevelt

    "motiveless malignity"

    "unprovoked and dastardly attack"

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