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Definition: Wanton |
WantonAdjective1. Occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt. 2. Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior". Noun1. Lewd or lascivious woman. Verb1. Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently. 2. Indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life. 3. Spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away". 4. Become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously. 5. Engage in amorous play. 6. Behave extremely cruelly and brutally. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wanton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: WantonSynonyms: easy (adj), light (adj), loose (adj), motiveless (adj), promiscuous (adj), sluttish (adj), unprovoked (adj), luxuriate (v), piddle (v), piddle away (v), trifle (v), trifle away (v), wanton away (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Toy, plaything, bauble; doll; (puppet ); teetotum; knickknack; (trifle); magic lantern; (show); peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show; toy shop; "quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles". |
Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool. | |
Caprice | Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile. |
Freedom | Free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished. |
Impurity | Unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose. |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
Rashness | Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care. |
Sufficiency | Verb: be sufficient; Adjective:; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster; have enough; Noun: eat. one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in; (superabundance) ; wanton. |
Unconformity | Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wanton |
| English words defined with "wanton": Amoret, Amorosa ♦ Bona roba ♦ Cadgy ♦ Flirtigig, Frisker ♦ Gat-toothed, Giglet, Giglot, Gillian ♦ hooliganism ♦ Jill-flirt ♦ Lubrical, Ludibrious ♦ malicious mischief, Malicious prosecution, mass murder, massacre ♦ Petulcous, Playsome, provocative ♦ Riggish ♦ Smicker, Sportful, Sybaritical ♦ To have a colt's tooth, Tomrig, Toyish, Toysome ♦ vandalism ♦ Wantoned, Wantoning, Wantonize, wantonly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wanton": Annie Laurie ♦ Barnwell, Bomba ♦ Cossack, Covetous Man ♦ Devil ♦ Hatchet ♦ Milesian Story ♦ Phædria, Pursy, Pursiness ♦ ROMP ♦ Vivien ♦ WORMS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wanton": Wantrust. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Wanton Sinner (1988) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. |
Marquis De Sade | Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her. |
Sir Thomas More | A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. |
William Shakespeare | As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport. |
| The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease. | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WORMS'-:MEAT:, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility. Ambitious fool! so mad to be a show! How profitless the labor you bestow Upon a dwelling whose magnificence The tenant neither can admire nor know. Build deep, build high, build massive as you can, The wanton grass-roots will defeat the plan By shouldering asunder all the stones In what to you would be a moment's span. Time to the dead so all unreckoned flies That when your marble is all dust, arise, If wakened, stretch your limbs and yawn -- You'll think you scarcely can have closed your eyes. What though of all man's works your tomb alone Should stand till Time himself be overthrown? Would it advantage you to dwell therein Forever as a stain upon a stone? Joel Huck |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | The Chickamaugas, aided by some banditti of another tribe in their vicinity, have recently perpetrated wanton and unprovoked hostilities upon the citizens of the United States in that quarter. |
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| "Wanton" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.47% of the time. "Wanton" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.47% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wanton": wanton away ♦ wanton breeze ♦ wanton child ♦ wanton negligence ♦ wanton woman. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wanton wife | 296 |
farrah wanton wife | 57 |
wanton | 35 |
wanton woman | 13 |
farrah wanton | 12 |
wanton wife.com | 7 |
pic wanton wife | 7 |
family wanton | 5 |
photography wanton | 5 |
soup wanton | 4 |
tasty wanton | 4 |
henry jones wanton | 3 |
farrah gallery wanton | 3 |
farrah gallery pic wanton | 3 |
endangerment wanton | 3 |
com wanton wife | 3 |
farrah pic wanton wife | 3 |
as join wanton wife | 2 |
gallery wanton wife | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wanton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tekanjoz (capricious, faddish, faddy, freakish, temperamental, wayward, whimsical), me trille (flighty), i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, winged, wing-footed), i pashkak (causeless, uncaused), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, effusive, fiery, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, immoderate, incontinent, intemperate, jazz, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, unrestrained, wild), i paarsyeshëm (arbitrary, daft, desperate, devil may care, gratuitous, headstrong, irrational, preposterous, unconscionable, unreasonable), i kotë (feckless, footling, futile, good for nothing, needless, otiose, pointless, unavailing, useless, vain, worthless). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited), فاجر (bawdy, dissipated, dissolute, lecher, libertine, licentious, obscene, obscenity, profligate, rake, rakish), مفعم بالمرح, مستهتر (careless, gay, heedless, inconsiderate, irresponsible, licentious, light minded, loiterer, pleasure-seeking, reckless, thoughtless, uninhibited, unrestrained), مسرف (extravagant, improvident, intemperate, ladle, lavish, loud, prodigal, profligate, profuse, thriftless, towering, ultra, wasteful), لعوب (coltish, dallying, frisky, frivolous, playful, prankish, skittish, sportive), وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wild), غاشم (brute, oppressive, tyrant), طفل مدلل (pet), خليع (dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, licentious, profligate, rake, rakish, uninhibited), جائر (inequitable, iniquitous, oppressive, unfair, unjust, unworthy, wrongful), أسرف في الوحشية, شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, warm), داعر (bawdy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, light, mean, naughty, obscene, obscenity, pornographic, raffish, salacious, scarlet, sensual). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безсрамник, играя (act, dance, disport oneself, do, enact, lead, perform, play, present, represent, run about, shoot, sport, support, twitch, waver), пилея (lavish, overspend, potter away, scatter, skittle, slather, throw about, throw away, waste), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous), палав (impish, larky, mischievous, naughty, noisy, pixy, prankish, puppyish, rompy, troublesome), покварен (corrupt, depraved, gamy, godforsaken, graceless, obscene, peccant, scrofulous, vicious), произволен (excursive, fanciful, random, unwarranted, wildcat), пропилявам (fritter away, misspend, muddle away, riot away, run through, spend), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy), безпричинен (causeless, gratuitous, uncaused, ungrounded), разточителен (extravagant, improvident, lavish, luxurious, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, sumptuous, superfluous, thriftless, uneconomic, unsparing, unthrifty, wasteful), богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, zizzi), неоправдан (undue, unfounded, ungrounded, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, wrongful), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wild, zizzi), охолен (affluent, easy, opulent, warm, wealthy), разпуснат (dissolute, fast, free, gay, incontinent, lax, loose, profligate, raffish, rakish, self-abandoned, ungovernable, unregenerated, unsteady), развратник (debauchee, fornicator, goat, lecher, libertine, profligate, rep, roue, satyr, sport, whore master), разточител (spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, warm, whippy, zippy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 淫 (excessive, kinky, lewd, obscene), 恶意 (malicious). (various references) | |
Czech | svévolný (arbitrary, gratuitous, self-inflicted, wayward, wilful, willful), smyslný (carnal, earthly, Randy, sensual, sensuous, sultry, voluptuous), rozpustilý (boisterous, hoity toity, impish, mischievous, naughty, ribald, unruly), prostopášnice, prostopášný (debauched, dissolute, libidinous, licentious, loose, profligate, rakish), nemravný (dissolute, immoral, indecent, obscene, vicious), dovádìt (carry on, cavort, Frisk, gambol, play, romp, tittup), bujný (abundant, ample, coltish, Corky, exuberant, high-spirited, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, thick, voluminous), úmyslný (advised, calculated, conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references) | |
Dutch | baldadig. (various references) | |
Esperanto | tumultema, fipetola. (various references) | |
Farsi | گستاخ شدن , گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En)), حرف نشنو, سرکش (Disobedient, Indomitable, Inelastic, Insubordinate, Irrepressible, Malcontent, Malignant, Naughty, Random, Rebel, Rebellious, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Restive, Rowdy, Turbulent, Undaunted, Unruly, Unyielding), عیاش (Jovial, Pleasurable), خوشحال (Bouncy, Gay, Glad, Happy, Jolly, Merry, Sprightly), جسور (Adventurer, Bold, Boldface, Cocky, Defiant, Forward, Fresh, Hardy, Immodest, Insolent, Pert, Presuming, Presumptuous, Rude), افراطکردن (Lavish), شهوترانی کردن (Lecher), شرورشدن , بی ترتیب کردن (Derange, Disarrange, Untune), بازیگوش (Playful). (various references) | |
Finnish | kevytmielinen (fast, frivolous, loose), kevytkenkäinen (fast, frivolous, loose). (various references) | |
French | vicieux, licencieux, libertin, injustifié, impudique, gratuit, femme légère, exubérant, dévergondé, capricieux, absurde. (various references) | |
German | mutwillig (airy-fairy, bratty, frolic, frolicsome, malicious, maliciously, mischievous, petulant, sportive, wantonly, willful), übermütig (airy-fairy, arrogant, cocky, frolic, frolicsome, haughty, high-spirited, hilarious, mischievous, petulant, playful, rollicking, skittish, skittishly), üppig (abundant, ample, elaborate, exuberant, fat, immensely rich, lavish, lavishly, luscious, lusciously, lush, luxuriant, luxuriantly, luxurious, opulent, profuse, profusely, rampant, rank, rich, rolling in money, sumptuous, sumptuously, thick, voluptuous, wantonly). (various references) | |
Greek | ιδιότροποσ (capricious, cranky, crotchety, faddy, fastidious, flighty, maggoty, pernickety, quirky, wayward, whimsical), φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, pervert, reprobate, scoundrelly, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villain, villainous, wicked), ακόλατοσ, αχαλίνωτοσ (rampant, unbridled, uncontrollable, uninhabited), οργιάζων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שובבי (impish, mischievous, naughty, puckish, rogue, roguish, sly, sportive, urchin), קפריסי (capricious, flighty, wayward, whimsical, whimsy), ז" (insolent, scoundrel, villain, wicked). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szeszélyes (be capricious, capricious, changeful, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, have a little finger ache, have moods, kinky, maggoty, mercurial, moody, peevish, petulant, skittish, whimsical), ledér nő (fast woman), ledér (frivolous, lecherous), könnyelmû (dissolute, flighty, flyaway, frivolous, hoity toity, improvident, light minded, light-headed, rollicking, unwary), könnyelmű (flighty, frivolous, giddy, happy-go-lucky, improvident, light, rollicking, slap-dash, to lack ballast, wasteful), kéjenc (goat, lecher, rake, rakehell, satyr, sensual, voluptuary), játékos (gambler, ludicrous, man, men, player, playful, pone, scrub, sportful, sportive), indokolatlan (causeless, gratuitous, undue, unmotivated, unprovoked), felelőtlen (happy-go-lucky, irresponsible), féktelen (boisterous, impetuous, lawless, licentious, madcap, obstreperous, rambunctious, rampageous, robustic, towering, turbulent, unbounded, unbridled, unrestrained, unruled), buja (concupiscent, concupisible, erotic, exuberant, gross, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, luscious, lush, lustful, luxuriant, pornerastic, prurient, rampant, rich, salacious), önkényes (absolutistic, arbitrary, discretionary, high handed, peremptory). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ceroboh (bum, careless, heady, reckless). (various references) | |
Italian | sfrenato (dissolute, unbridled, uncontrolled, unrestrained, unruly, wild), scatenato (rumbustious, wild), licenzioso (debauched, dissipated, dissolute, frolicsome, indecent, lawless, licentious, loose, obscene, profligate, raffish, ribald, riotous, rollicking, unchecked, undisciplined, unrestrained, wild). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "っ葉 (vulgar), 浮気 (fickle, flighty, unfaithful), 水性 (aqueous, fluidity, water-based). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うわき (fickle, flighty, unfaithful), みずしょう (fluidity), はすっぱ (vulgar). (various references) | |
Korean | 변덕스러운 (streaky). (various references) | |
Manx | rouanagh (immoral, lewd, profligate, rioter, riotous), gyn oyr (groundless, senseless, unduly, unfounded, without reason), gyn fa (for no reason), gimmanagh (debauched, salacious, smutty, unchaste), gaddeeagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antonway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lânguido (drowsy, flabby, languid, languishing, listless), agir ousadamente, arbitrário (arbitrary, masterful, overbearing), atrevido (audacious, boastful, bold, cheeky, daring, gay, impertinent, insolent, malapert, pert, presumptuous, pushing, saucy, uppity, waspish), brincalhão (frisky, frolic, gamesome, jester, jesting, jocular, joker, joky, kittenish, larky, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, tricksy, waggish), criança alegre, deliberado (advised, calculated, conscious, deliberate, designed, prepense, studied), devasso (bawdry, dissolute, free thinker, immoral, lecherous, lewd, libertine, loose, lothario, playboy, profligate, rakish, roue, salacious, wasteful), abundante (abundant, abundantly, ample, bounteous, chock-full, copious, flush, frequent, full, generous, large, lumping, numerous, opulent, philoprogenitive, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolific, rich, teeming, thick-set, unsparing), intencional (calculated, conscious, deliberate, designed, intended, intentional, pointed, prepense, purposeful, purposive, studied, wilful, willful), travesso (chaffy, elfish, elvish, frolic, mischievous, playful, prankish, tricksy, wheeler-dealer), lascivo (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lubricous, prurient), libertino (free thinker, lascivious, lecherous, libertine, lothario, lovelace, playboy, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rep, ribald, rioter, roue, salacious, wasteful), luxuriante (lush, luxuriant, luxurious, opulent, rank), malicioso (arch, bland, catty, despiteful, devilish, evil-minded, guileful, malicious, mischievous, mordacious, nasty, parlous, pawky, piquant, puckish, salty, tricksy, vicious), pródigo (extravagant, large, lavish, prodigal, profuse, spendthrift, thriftless, unsparing, unthrifty), sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicurean, fleshly, goatish, high-sounding, incontinent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sensuous, sexy, unreserved, voluptuous), temerário (chanceful, daredevil, daring, devil-may-care, foolhardy, overbold, reckless, temerarious, venturesome), injustificado (gratuitous, unworthy, wrongful). (various references) | |
Romanian | lasciv (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, liquorish, prurient, Randy, salacious), copil neastâmpãrat (brat, wanton child), curtezanã (courtesan, tart), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, whoremaster), desfrânatã, destrãbãlatã (tear), extravagant (cracked, crazy, eccentric, exaggerated, extravagant, fancy, lunatic, rampant, unreasonable, wildcat), exuberant (copious, ebullient, effusive, exuberant, gushing, rampant, rumbustious), femeie uşoarã (gay woman), furios (desperate, enraged, fiery, frantic, furious, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wild, wrathful), capricios (arbitrary, capricious, cranky, crotchety, difficult, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, fitful, fractious, freakish, frolic, Froward, humoursome, peevish, perverse, vagarious, wayward, whimsical, whimsy), jucãuş (dancer, frolicsome, jocose, kittenish, lambent, playful, prankish, rolling, skittish), zgomotos (bacchanal, blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, obstreperous, rampageous, Randy, rattling, resoundingly, riotous, robustious, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), nebunatic (devil may care, frisky, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky), pofticios (greedy, longing, wishful, wistful), poznaş (arch, elfish, funny, prankish, rogue, roguish, scapegrace, tricksy, tricky, wag, waggish, wit), sprinţar (sprightly), sprinten (agile, agilely, alive, fleet, fleet-footed, light footed, lightsome, lissom, lithe, lively, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, trippingly, wing-footed), spulberatic (fickle), stricatã (hussy, jade), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up), violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent), juca (act, dance, enact, frolic, gamble, gambol, game, hazard, interpret, perform, play, present, produce, put on, sport, stake, trifle). (various references) | |
Russian | бессмысленный (blank, crack-brained, driftless, fatuous, headless, kill time, meaningless, mindless, nonsensial, nonsensical, pointless, senseless, unmeaning). (various references) | |
Scottish | riatach, mear (merry, playful, sportive). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razuzdan (abandoned, lawless, licentious, outrageous, unbridled, uncurbed), rasipan (profuse, thriftless, wasteful), nemoralan (cankered, immoral, non moral, unprincipled, vicious), nemilosrdan (cruel, dispiteous, graceless, hardhearted, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful), nečovečan (brutal, inhuman, unmanly). (various references) | |
Spanish | petulante (arrogant, hoity toity). (various references) | |
Swedish | yster (coltish, frisky, skittish, wild), lättsinnig (fickle, frivolous, giddy, irresponsible, light, light minded, light-headed, lightsome, naughty, sporty, thoghtless, trifling). (various references) | |
Turkish | serkeş (disobedient, disorderly, fractious, Froward, rebellious, rounder, strongheaded, unruly, wild), sebepsiz (causeless, gratis, gratuitous, groundless, innocent of reason, unprovoked, without any reason), oyunbaz (tricksy, wangler), maskara (antic, buffoon, butt, fool, jester, laughing stock, laughingstock, mascara, masquerader, mummer, zany), kendini eğlenceye vermek, kötü niyetli (baleful, gloating, ill disposed, ill-affected, ill-intentioned, malevolent, malicious, malignant, poisonous, sinister), hafif meşrep, düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, without tact, witless), amaçsız (aimless, at an end, objectless, pointless, purposeless, vacuous, vagabond, without cause), aklına eseni yapan, ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wicked), aşırı çoğalmak (grow rife), çok gelişmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбещений (abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, degenerate, depraved, filthy, licentious, miscreant, spoilt, wild), розпусничати (philander, sleep around, whore, womanize), розпусниця (quean), розпущений (dissolute), щедрий (boon, bounteous, charitable, flush, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, handsome, munificent, open, open handed, prodigal, profuse, ungrudging), гратися (dandle, frolic, play, sport, toy), грайливий (arch, facetious, frisky, gamesome, jocose, kittenish, playful, playsome, skittish), насильничати, мінливий (capricious, changeable, changeful, chatoyant, chequered, choppy, floating, inconsistent, interchangeable, mutable, non-permanent, skittish, stayless, uncertain, vagrant, variable, varied, wavy, wayward), бурхливий (blusterous, gusty, headlong, raging, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, volcanic, wild, windy), буйно розростатися, безглуздий (absurd, addle-brained, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, brute, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, senseless, wet), пустунчик, пустотливий (airy, arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, whisky), довільний (arbitral, arbitrary, voluntary). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tinh nghịch (arch, archly, puckish), sum sê (luxuriant), nghịch gợm; đùa giỡn lung tung, người đ n b dâm đãng, loạn, không mục đích phóng đãng, dâm đãng (lecherous), dâm ô (salacious, unchaste), bậy bạ (nonsensical, random, rubbishy), bất chính tốt tươi, bừa bãi; vô cớ. (various references) | |
Welsh | trythyll (lascivious), rhewydd (lustful), masweddol (ribald), masw (soft, tender), anlladu, anllad (lascivious, lwed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | delicata, delicatae, delicate, delicati, delicatum, delicatus, lascivus, luxuriosa, luxuriosam, luxuriosus, petulans, proterus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | NewteraV de chraV paraitou otan gar katastrhniaswsin tou cristou gamein qelousin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Adulescentiores autem viduas devita cum enim luxuriatae fuerint in Christo nubere volunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But eschewe thou yongere widewis; for whanne thei han do letcherie, thei wolen be weddid in Crist, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The yonger widdowes refuse. For when they have begone to wexe wantone to the dishonoure of Christ then will they mary |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they will marry; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | Apan ayaw pag-isulat sa talaan ang mga babayeng balo nga mga batan-on; kay kini sila, sa diha nga magapatuyang na sa ilang kaugalingon batok kang Cristo, magatinguha na sa pagpamana, |
| Croatian | Mlaðe pak udovice odbijaj jer kad ih požuda odvrati od Krista, hoæe se udati, |
| Danish | Men afvis unge Enker; thi når de i kødelig Attrå gøre Oprør imod Kristus, ville de giftes |
| Dutch | Maar neem de jonge weduwen niet aan; want als zij weelderig geworden zijn tegen Christus, zo willen zij huwelijken; |
| Finnish | Mutta nuoret lesket hylkää; sillä kun he himokkaiksi käyden vieraantuvat Kristuksesta, tahtovat he mennä naimisiin, |
| French | Mais refuse les jeunes veuves; car, lorsque la volupté les détache du Christ, elles veulent se marier, |
| German | Der jungen Witwen aber entschlage dich; denn wenn sie geil geworden sind wider Christum, so wollen sie freien |
| Haitian Creole | Men, pa mete okenn vèv ki poko gen laj sa a sou lis. Paske, lè anvi a pran yo pou yo marye, yo vire do bay Kris la. |
| Hungarian | A fiatalabb özvegyasszonyokat pedig mellõzd; mert ha gerjedeznek Krisztus ellenére, férjhez akarnak menni: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jangan masukkan ke dalam daftar itu janda-janda yang masih muda. Sebab kalau rasa berahi mereka menjadi sangat kuat, mereka mau kawin lagi, dan meninggalkan Kristus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi engganlah akan segala perempuan janda yang muda, karena apabila mereka itu berasa berahi bersalahan dengan Kristus, mereka itu pun inginlah hendak kawin, |
| Maori | Ko nga pouaru taitamariki ia me whakarere; ki te tupu hoki to ratou whakaaro poauau takahi i ta te Karaiti, ka hiahia ki te marena; |
| Norwegian | Men yngre enker skal du avvise; for når de i kjødelig lyst sviker Kristus, vil de gifte sig, |
| Rumanian | Dar pe vqduvele tinere sq nu le primewti: pentrucq atunci cknd le desparte pofta de Hristos, vor sq se mqrite din nou, |
| Russian | нПМП"ЩИ ЦЕ Ч"ПЧЙ" ОЕ ТЙОЙНБК, Й'П ПОЙ, Ч Б"БС Ч ТПУЛПЫШ Ч ТПФЙЧОПУФШ иТЙУФХ, ЦЕМБАФ ЧУФХ БФШ Ч 'ТБЛ. |
| Swahili | Usiwaandikishe wajane vijana, kwani kama tamaa zao za maumbile zikizidi kuwa na nguvu zaidi kuliko kujitolea kwao kwa Kristo watataka kuolewa tena, |
| Swedish | Unga änkor skall du däremot icke antaga. Ty när de hava njutit nog av Kristus, vilja de åter gifta sig; |
| Uma | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wanton": wantoned, wantoner, wantoners, wantoning, wantonly, wantonness, wantonnesses, wantons. (additional references) | |
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"Wanton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antun, nantong, Tanton, waiton, wanon, wanta, wantan, wanten, wantin, wanto, wantok, wantoun, warton, wato, waton, Wendon, wento, winon, wintan, wontan, wonten, wontom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wanton" (pronounced wÄ"ntun) |
| 5 | -Ä" n t u n | ponton. |
| 4 | -n t u n | badminton, Canton, dentin, fountain, intermountain, mountain, plantain. |
| 3 | -t u n | fatten, actin, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, platen, pleasing, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wheaten, whiten, written. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-n-o-t-w" | |
-2 letters: anon, nona, nota, nowt, town, want, wont. | |
-3 letters: ant, awn, nan, naw, not, now, oat, own, tan, tao, taw, ton, tow, twa, two, wan, wat, won, wot. | |
-4 letters: an, at, aw, na, no, on, ow, ta, to, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-n-o-t-w" | |
+1 letter: wantons. | |
+2 letters: nanowatt, outgnawn, townsman, wantoned, wantoner, wantonly. | |
+3 letters: antiwoman, nanowatts, wantoners, wantoning, warbonnet. | |
+4 letters: nationwide, outfawning, outgnawing, shantytown, stuntwoman, townswoman, wantonness, warbonnets. | |
+5 letters: gentlewoman, postweaning, shantytowns, wainscoting. | |
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