Wanton: Definition and part of speech

Wanton

  1. n. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
  2. v. t. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
  3. v. t. Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
  4. v. t. Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
  5. v. t. Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
  6. n. A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; — used rarely as a term of endearment.
  7. n. One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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