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Adjective wanton has 2 senses
- motiveless, unprovoked, wanton - occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt
Antonym: motivated (indirect, via unmotivated)
- easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton - casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
Antonym: chaste (indirect, via unchaste)
Noun wanton has 1 sense
- wanton - lewd or lascivious woman
--1 is a kind of sensualist
--1 has particulars: light-o'-love, light-of-love
Verb wanton has 6 senses
- piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle - waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
--1 is one way to spend, pass
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- wanton - indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
--2 is one way to live
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- wanton, wanton away, trifle away - spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"
--3 is one way to spend, expend, drop
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- luxuriate, wanton - become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
--4 is one way to consume, squander, waste, ware
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- wanton - engage in amorous play
--5 is one way to chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
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- wanton - behave extremely cruelly and brutally
--6 is one way to act, behave, do
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