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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
wanton
lewd or lascivious woman
• Hypernyms:
sensualist
• Hyponyms:
light-o'-love, light-of-love
1. indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
• Hypernyms:
live
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. become extravagant;
indulge (oneself) luxuriously
• Syn:
luxuriate
• Derivationally related forms:
luxury (for: luxuriate), luxuriation (for: luxuriate)
• Hypernyms:
consume, squander, waste, ware
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. spend wastefully
- wanton one's money away
• Syn:
wanton away, trifle away
• Hypernyms:
spend, expend, drop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. waste time;
spend one's time idly or inefficiently
• Syn:
piddle, wanton away, piddle away, trifle
• Derivationally related forms:
trifling (for: trifle)
• Hypernyms:
spend, expend, drop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
5. engage in amorous play
• Hypernyms:
chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet,
coquette, romance, philander, mash
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
6. behave extremely cruelly and brutally
• Hypernyms:
act, behave, do
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
1. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- her easy virtue
- he was told to avoid loose (or light) women
- wanton behavior
• Syn:
easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish
• Similar to:
unchaste
• Derivationally related forms:
wantonness, sluttishness (for: sluttish), promiscuousness (for: promiscuous), promiscuity (for: promiscuous), looseness (for: loose)
2. occurring without motivation or provocation
- motiveless malignity
- "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt
• Syn:
motiveless, unprovoked
• Similar to:
unmotivated
• Derivationally related forms:
wantonness
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