wanton

The word “wanton” has 2 syllables: wan-ton

It's pronounced as /ˈwɒn.tən/


What is synonym and antonym for wanton?

In the thesaurus, “wanton” has 232 synonyms and 89 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for wanton along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for wanton

Antonyms for wanton

  • G-rated
  • Victorian
  • acceptable
  • agreeable
  • appropriate
  • approved
  • becoming
  • benign
  • benignant
  • calm
  • careful
  • celibate
  • charitable
  • chaste
  • clean
  • clement
  • compassionate
  • correct
  • decent
  • decorous
  • desirable
  • economical
  • endorsed
  • fit
  • frigid
  • genteel
  • gentle
  • good
  • good-hearted
  • humane
  • immaculate
  • indorsed
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • kind
  • kindhearted
  • lenient
  • lily-white
  • maidenly
  • meet
  • merciful
  • modest
  • monastic
  • monkish
  • moral
  • needed
  • nice
  • nonobscene
  • observant
  • pacific
  • peaceable
  • peaceful
  • perfect
  • pitying
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • polite
  • priggish
  • prim
  • proper
  • prudish
  • pure
  • puritanical
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • respectable
  • righteous
  • sanctioned
  • seemly
  • sensible
  • spotless
  • staid
  • straightlaced
  • straitlaced
  • suitable
  • sympathetic
  • tender
  • tenderhearted
  • thoughtful
  • thrifty
  • undersexed
  • virginal
  • virtuous
  • warm
  • warmhearted
  • welcome
  • wholesome
  • wise

Meanings of wanton

  • 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.
  • adjective
    1. Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
    2. 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.

Example Sentences

  • She showed a wanton disregard for others' feelings.
  • The vandalism was a wanton act of destruction.
  • His wanton behavior at the party shocked everyone.
  • The dictator's regime was known for its wanton cruelty.
  • The company faced criticism for its wanton disregard of environmental regulations.

On this page you'll find 321 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wanton, such as: G-rated, Victorian, X-rated, abandoned, abhorrent, abusive, acceptable.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abandoned

dallied

  • aestivated
  • ambled
  • amused
  • be insincere with
  • boondoggle
  • bummed
  • carry on
  • cavorted
  • chilled
  • coquetted
  • cosset
  • courted
  • crawled
  • crept
  • dabbled
  • dawdled
  • decelerated
  • delayed
  • delighted
  • diddled
  • dillydallied
  • disported
  • diverted
  • dozed
  • drag
  • dragged
  • droned
  • dropped behind
  • eased
  • entertained
  • estivated
  • fell behind
  • filibustered
  • flirted
  • fool around
  • fool with
  • fooled
  • fooled around
  • footled
  • frisked
  • fritter away
  • frivol
  • frivoled
  • frivolled
  • frolic
  • frolicked
  • furloughed
  • gambol
  • gamboled
  • gambolled
  • goldbricked
  • hang about
  • hanged
  • have a fling
  • hibernated
  • horse around
  • hung
  • hung about
  • hung fire
  • idle
  • idled
  • inched
  • jerk off
  • jested
  • joked
  • joshed
  • kicked around
  • kicked back
  • kidded
  • killed time
  • lag
  • lagged
  • lallygagged
  • lazed
  • lazied
  • lead on
  • led on
  • linger
  • lingered
  • loafed
  • loiter
  • loitered
  • lolled
  • lollygag
  • lollygagged
  • lounged
  • lumbered
  • malingered
  • manipulated
  • marked time
  • mashed
  • messed
  • messed around
  • monkeyed
  • moped
  • moseyed
  • mucked
  • piddled
  • play around
  • play games with
  • played
  • pleased
  • plodded
  • poked
  • procrastinate
  • procrastinated
  • put off
  • put on
  • putter
  • razzed
  • recreated
  • relaxed
  • rested
  • ribbed
  • rollick
  • rollicked
  • romp
  • romped
  • sauntered
  • screwed around
  • shilly-shallied
  • shuffled
  • skylarked
  • sported
  • staggered
  • stalled
  • strolled
  • strung along
  • swanned
  • tamper
  • tarried
  • tarry
  • teased
  • temporized
  • toyed
  • trail
  • trifle with
  • trifled
  • truanted
  • vamped
  • vegged out
  • wanton
  • waste time
  • while away
  • wooed

jade

objectless

  • accidental
  • adventitious
  • aimless
  • any which way
  • arbitrary
  • bits and pieces
  • blind
  • by-the-way
  • capricious
  • careless
  • casual
  • catch-as-catch-can
  • chance
  • charitable
  • contingent
  • designless
  • desultory
  • directionless
  • drifting
  • driftless
  • erratic
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fits and starts
  • flighty
  • fluky
  • forgiving
  • fortuitous
  • frivolous
  • goalless
  • haphazard
  • heedless
  • helter-skelter
  • hit-or-miss
  • incidental
  • indecisive
  • indiscriminate
  • indiscriminating
  • irregular
  • irresolute
  • odd
  • pointless
  • promiscuous
  • purposeless
  • random
  • scattered
  • shiftless
  • slapdash
  • spot
  • stray
  • thoughtless
  • unaimed
  • unavailing
  • unconsidered
  • uncritical
  • undemanding
  • undirected
  • undiscriminating
  • unfussy
  • unguided
  • unplanned
  • unpredictable
  • unpremeditated
  • unselective
  • unsystematic
  • vagrant
  • wandering
  • wanton
  • wayward

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