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adj
Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: anarchic, rampant
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Playful, sportive; merry or carefree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: coltish, frisky, frolicsome, abuzz, active, agile, airy, alive, animate, animated, brisk, busy, busy as a bee, buxom, buzzing, diligent, driven, driving, dynamic, eager, effervescent, energetic, enthusiastic, expeditious, gay, genki, glowing, happy, hearty, impetuous, industrious, keen, kinetic, lively, merry, mobile, motivated, moving, nimble, peppy, perky, restive, sassy, snappy, spirited, sprightly, sprunt, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, wanton, youthful, zealous, zestful, zippy, at ease, at peace, carefree, careless, casual, chill, cool, devil-may-care, easy-breezy, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, indifferent, insouciant, laid-back, leisurely, lighthearted, loose, mellow, nonchalant, pococurante, relaxed, serene, solute, tranquil, unanxious, unbothered, unconcerned, undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, unworried
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: lewd, lustful, unchaste, ablaze, amorous, aroused, buckish, concupiscent, corny, desirous, drippy, DTF, excited, flustered, frisky, fuckish, gagging for it, horny, hot, hot and bothered, hot to trot, impure, in heat, lascivious, libidinous, lickerish, lusty, prurient, randy, ravenous, ruttish, rutty, sexed up, stimulated, thirsty, toey, toey as a Roman sandal, turned on, venereal, venereous, wanton
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: callous, inhumane, merciless, unjustified
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: lavish, luxuriant, prodigal, devilish, excessive, de trop, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, intemperate, nimious, obscene, overmuch, overweening, over the top, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, wanton
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A pampered or coddled person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cosset, feddle, mollycoddle
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An overly playful person; a trifler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: footler, fribble, player, sporter, toyer, whiffler
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: player, roué, adulterer, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debauchee, debaucher, fornicator, gallant, lecher, lewdster, libertine, hood rat, philanderer, rake, rantipole, rizzler, seducer, voluptuary, wanton, abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass nail, brasser, brass, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gillian, gill, girl of the game, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoer, hoe, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the game, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, meat puppet, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro skirt, prossie, prossy, pross, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, pro, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, puta, put, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thotty, thot, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, 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
Antonyms: none provided
noun
wonton (Chinese dumpling)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, Singapore
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: revel, romp
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: lavish, splash out, splurge, throw away
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: colt, rig, blissom, chamber, gill, harlot, harlotize, minx, rake, slut, trollop, wanton, wantonize
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
occurring without motivation or provocation- F.D.Roosevelt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: motiveless, unprovoked
Antonyms: none provided
noun
lewd or lascivious woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sensualist
Narrower terms: light-o'-love, light-of-love
verb
behave extremely cruelly and brutally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: act, behave, do
verb
engage in amorous play
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
verb
become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: luxuriate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consume, squander, waste, ware
verb
spend wastefully
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wanton away, trifle away
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spend, expend, drop
verb
indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: live
verb
waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: piddle, wanton away, piddle away, trifle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spend, expend, drop
History
From Middle English wantoun, wantowen, wantoȝen, wantowe (“uneducated; unrestrained; licentious; sportive; playful”), from wan- (“not, un-, mis-”) + towen, i-towen (“educated”, literally “towed; led; drawn”), from Old English togen, ġetogen, past participle of tēon (“to train, discipline”), equivalent to wan- + towed.
Borrowed from Cantonese 雲吞 /云吞 (wan4 tan1).
Across languages
185 source translations are retained for this English entry.
