wanton

WANTON, adjective 1. Wandering or roving in gaiety or sport; sportive; frolicsome; darting aside, or one way and the other. wanton boys kill flies for sport. Not a wild and wanton herd. 2. Moving or flying loosely; playing in the wind. She her unadorned golden tresses wore disheveld, but in wanton ringlets wavd. 3. Wandering from moral rectitude; licentious; dissolute; indulging in sensuality without restraint; as men grown wanton by prosperity. My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness-- 4. More appropriately, deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous. Thou art froward by nature, enemy to peace, lascivious wanton Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton James 5:5. 5. Disposed to unchastity; indicating wantonness. Isaiah 3:16. 6. Loose; unrestrained; running to excess. How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise! 7. Luxuriant; overgrown. What we by day lop overgrown, one night or two with wanton growth derides, tending to wild. 8. Extravagant; as wanton dress. 9. Not regular; not turned or formed with regularity. The quaint mazes in the wanton green. WANTON, noun 1. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman. 2. A trifler; an insignificant flutterer. 3. A word of slight endearment. Peace, my wanton--[Little used.] WANTON, verb transitive 1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule or limit; to revel; to play loosely. Nature here wantond as in her prime. Her golden tresses wanton in the wind. 2. To ramble in lewdness; to play lasciviously. 3. To move briskly and irregularly.