Usually means: Recklessly indifferent to consequences, uncontrolled.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wanton: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wanton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wanton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wanton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wanton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wanton, wanton: Wordnik
  7. wanton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wanton: Wiktionary
  9. wanton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wanton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wanton: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wanton: Dictionary.com
  13. wanton (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wanton: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wanton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wanton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wanton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wanton: Rhymezone
  19. wanton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wanton: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wanton: Free Dictionary
  22. wanton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wanton: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. wanton: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. wanton: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. wanton: Law.com Dictionary
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  5. wanton: Legal dictionary
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  1. wanton: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wanton: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. wanton: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic) Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
adjective:  (obsolete) Playful, sportive; merry or carefree.
adjective:  Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
adjective:  Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
adjective:  (archaic) Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive.
noun:  A pampered or coddled person.
noun:  An overly playful person; a trifler.
noun:  A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
noun:  (archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
verb:  (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
verb:  (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
verb:  (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
noun:  (Philippines, Singapore) wonton (Chinese dumplings)

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