| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
| |
wanton |
| |
| NOUN: | 1. A vulgar promiscuous woman who flouts propriety: baggage, hussy, jade, slattern, slut, tart2, tramp, wench, whore. Slang : floozy. See SEX. 2. An immoral or licentious person: libertine, profligate, rake1. See SEX. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Lacking in moral restraint: abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, unrestrained, wild. See RESTRAINT. 2. Marked by an absence of conventional restraint in sexual behavior; sexually unrestrained: easy, fast, libertine, light2, loose, whorish. See SEX. 3. Not required, necessary, or warranted by the circumstances of the case: gratuitous, supererogative, supererogatory, uncalled-for. See NECESSARY.
| | |
| |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
