wanton

Meaning

Adj

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

Noun

1. A pampered or coddled person.
2. An overly playful person; a trifler.
3. A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
4. A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.

Verb

1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
2. To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
3. To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.

Noun

wonton (Chinese dumplings)

Synonyms

lascivious

licentious

lewd

wanton away

lecherous

promiscuous

profligate

sportive

lustful

light

sluttish

piddle

trifle

trifle away

dissolute

dally

wayward

loose

culpable

salacious

easy

motiveless

self-willed

amorous

debauched

court

abandoned

depraved

arbitrary

of easy virtue

capricious

unchaste

uncontrolled

libertine

unprovoked

unrestrained

playful

vicious

libidinous

reprehensible

luxuriate

loose woman

piddle away

riotous

petulant

philandering

quirky

rake

rakish

rampant

reckless

reprobate

riotously

seditionous

seditionously

seditious

seditiously

senseless

sensual

sexy

sinful

spend

splurge

sulky

tittup

unbridled

uncontrollable

unconventional

uninhabited

unsteady

villain

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voluptuous

vulgar

weird

whimsical

whore

wild

woo

Gillian

faddy

wonton

waste

vile person

conquettish

express amorous desire

sport amorously

light-of-love

light-o’-love

woman of pleasure

ne’re-do-well

adulteress

blasphemous

blow

chamber

colt

concupiscent

coquettish

cranky

crotchety

dallying

debauchery

desolate

dissipate

dissipated

extreme

factious

fastidious

fickle

flighty

flirt with

fluidity

fool

forsaken

frisky

frolicsome

horny

indecent

inflammatory

insubordinate

insurgent

insurrectionary

maggoty

meretricious

minx

moody

mutinous

mutinously

naughty

nice

obscene

peevish

pernickety

pettish

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɒntən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wantoun

Inherited from Old English: togen

In summary

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.