wanton

Plural: wanton, wantons

Noun

• lewd or lascivious woman
• A pampered or coddled person.
• An overly playful person; a trifler.
• A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
• A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
• wonton (Chinese dumpling)

Verb

Verb Forms: wantoned, wantoning, wantons

• To behave in a reckless, irresponsible, or immoral manner.
• waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
• indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
• spend wastefully
  • "wanton one's money away"
• become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
• engage in amorous play
• behave extremely cruelly and brutally
• To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
• To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
• To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.

Adjective Satellite

• occurring without motivation or provocation; ; - F.D.Roosevelt
• casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
  • "wanton behavior"

Adj

• Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
• Playful, sportive; merry or carefree.
• Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
• Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
• Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive.

Examples

• He might wanton with his tiles, but he still usually wins in Words With Friends.
• The young man wantoned away his inheritance.

Synonyms

easy, light, loose, luxuriate, motiveless, piddle, piddle away, promiscuous, sluttish, trifle, trifle away, unprovoked, wanton away, 'ho, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, DTF, Dutch widow, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, Paphian, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, ablaze, abuzz, adulterer, agile, airy, alive, alley cat, almah, amorous, anarchic, anarchical, animate, animated, aroused, at ease, bangtail, bargirl, bat, bed-hopper, beotch, blissom, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, bratty, brisk, broad, buckish, business girl, busy, busy as a bee, buxom, buzzing, calico queen, callet, callous, carefree, careless, carpetmonger, casual, cat, chamber, chamberer, chaotic, chill, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, colt, coltish, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, concupiscent, cool, cosset, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, debauchee, debaucher, desirous, devil-may-care, difficult, diligent, dionysiac, dionysian, disciplineless, dollymop, doxy, drab, driven, driving, dynamic, eager, easy-breezy, easygoing, effervescent, energetic, enthusiastic, escort, excessive, excited, expeditious, extravagant, extreme, feddle, fille de joie, flap, floozie, footler, fornicator, fornicatrix, fractious, frail sister, fribble, frisky, frolicsome, fuckish, gagging for it, gallant, gamester, gay, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, glowing, good-time girl, governless, gung ho, hackney, happy, happy-go-lucky, hard, harlot, harlotize, hearty, hireling, hoe, hoer, hood rat, hook, hooker, horny, hot, hot and bothered, hot to trot, hustler, immoderate, impetuous, in heat, indifferent, indisciplined, industrious, inhumane, insouciant, intemperate, irrepressible, jay, karayuki-san, keen, kinetic, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, laid-back, lascivious, lavish, lawless, lecher, leisurely, lewd, lewdster, libertine, libidinous, lickerish, lighthearted, lightskirt, lively, loose woman, loose-handed, lot lizard, lustful, lusty, luxuriant, meat puppet, mellow, merciless, meretrix, mermaid, merry, minx, mob, mobile, moll, mollycoddle, mort wap-apace, mot, motivated, moving, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nimble, nimious, nonchalant, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, obscene, out of control, out of joint, over the top, overmuch, overweening, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, peppy, perdita, perky, philanderer, pimpette, player, pococurante, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, prodigal, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, prurient, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, rake, rampant, randy, rantipole, ravenous, relaxed, restive, revel, ribibe, rig, rizzler, rock hard, romp, roué, ruttish, rutty, scrubber, seducer, serene, sex labourer, sex worker, sexed up, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, snappy, sodomitess, soiled dove, solute, spirited, splash out, splurge, sporter, sprightly, sprunt, spry, stanchless, stem siren, stew, stimulated, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thirsty, thot, thotty, throw away, tib, toey, toey as a Roman sandal, tom, toyer, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, turned on, tweak, unanxious, unbothered, unbridled, unchaste, unchecked, unconcerned, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unjustified, unmeasured, unreasonable, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, untoward, unvanquished, unworried, venereal, venereous, vibrant, vice girl, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, voluptuary, wanton, wantonize, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whiffler, whore, wild, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl, zealous, zestful, zippy

Antonyms

apollonian, constrained, disciplined, inhibited, orderly, repressible, restrained, ruly, under control

Related Words

enthusiastic, libertine, obstinate, wantonly, wantonness, wantonry

Anagrams of wanton