wanton

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɒntən/    美 /ˈwɑntən/|/ˈwɒntən/|/ˈwɒntɒn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pampered or coddled person.
    — I would have thee gone — / And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, / That lets it hop a little from her hand, / Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, / And with a silken thread plucks it back again[…]
  2. wonton (Chinese dumpling) Philippines,Singapore
    — Add wanton, chives and vegetables to broth and season with 1 tablespoon salt, ½ teaspoon sesame oil, and 1 chicken cube.
  3. An overly playful person; a trifler.
    — you but dally, / I pray you passe with your best violence, / I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
  4. A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
  5. A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute. archaic
    — ...paints with tremendous force the adulteries of the two wantons Aholah and Aholibah, Israel and Judah, and their love of strangers...
动词 v.
  1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. intransitive
    — […] We will fetch thee straight / Adonis painted by a running brook, / And Cytherea all in sedges hid, / Which seem to move and wanton with her breath / Even as the waving sedges play wi’ th’ wind.
  2. To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away). transitive
    — The young man wantoned away his inheritance.
  3. To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious. intransitive
    — Be loving and courteous to your fellow Servants, not gigling or idling out your time, or wantoning in the society of men […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled. archaic
    — As Flies to wanton Boyes are we to th' Gods, / They kill us for their sport.
  2. Playful, sportive; merry or carefree. obsolete
    — The grave simplicity of the philosopher was ill calculated to engage her wanton levity, or to fix that unbounded passion for variety, which often discovered personal merit in the meanest of mankind.
  3. Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
    — if wenches will hang out lures for fellows, it is no matter what they suffer: I detest such creatures; and it would be much better for them that their faces had been seamed with the smallpox: but I must confess I never saw any of this wanton behaviour in poor Jenny [...].
  4. Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
    — Edward himself, now thoroughly enlightened on her character, had no scruple in believing her capable of the utmost meanness of wanton ill-nature.
  5. Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive. archaic
    — the market price will rise more or less above the natural price, according as either the greatness of the deficiency, or the wealth and wanton luxury of the competitors, happen to animate more or less the eagerness of the competition.

词形变化

more wanton comparative wantoner comparative most wanton superlative wantonest superlative wantons plural wantons present,singular,third-person wantoning participle,present wantoned participle,past wantoned past wanton plural wantons plural

词汇关系

近义词
anarchic anarchical bratty chaotic difficult dionysiac dionysian disciplineless fractious governless gung ho indisciplined irrepressible lawless loose-handed rampant rantipole reinless stanchless unbridled unchecked uncontrolled uncontrollable undisciplined ungovernable ungoverned uninhibited unreined unrestrained unruly untoward unvanquished out of control out of joint wanton wild
反义词
apollonian constrained disciplined inhibited repressible restrained ruly under control orderly
上位词
disorderly unrestricted
下位词
boisterous free-spirited indomitable rambunctious randy raucous rowdy unkempt wayward
衍生词
wag-wanton wanton kittens make sober cats witwanton
相关词
libidinous maenadic enthusiastic libertine obstinate wantonly wantonness wantonry

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wantoun, wantowen, wantoȝen, wantowe (“uneducated; unrestrained; licentious; sportive; playful”), from wan- (“not, un-, mis-”) + towen, i-towen (“educated”, literally “towed; led; drawn”), from Old English togen, ġetogen, past participle of tēon (“to train, discipline”), equivalent to wan- + towed.
词源 2
Borrowed from Cantonese 雲吞 /云吞 (wan⁴ tan¹).
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