Wanton
['wɒntən] or ['wɔntən]
解释:
(noun.) lewd or lascivious woman.
(verb.) behave extremely cruelly and brutally.
(verb.) engage in amorous play.
(verb.) spend wastefully; 'wanton one's money away'.
(verb.) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life.
录入:谢里夫--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
(v. t.) Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute.
(v. t.) Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous.
(v. t.) Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief.
(n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment.
(n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.
(n.) A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.
(v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
(v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
(v. t.) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
海伦娜编辑
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Wandering, loose, unrestrained, unchecked, free.[2]. Luxuriant, exuberant, abounding, rank, rampant.[3]. Sportive, frolicsome, playful, gay, frisky, coltish, airy.[4]. Dissolute, licentious, lewd, incontinent, prurient, lustful, lascivious, lecherous, carnal, salacious, libidinous, concupiscent, lickerish, unchaste, loose.
n. Lewd person.
v. n. [1]. Revel, frolic, sport, play, disport, frisk, romp, caper, make fun, make merry.[2]. Luxuriate, live luxuriously, live in clover.
贾维斯整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Wandering, roving, sportive, playful, frolicsome, loose, unbridled, uncurbed,reckless, unrestrained, irregular, licentious, dissolute, inconsiderate,heedless, gratuitous
ANT:Stationary, unrovlng, unsportive, unplayful, unfrolicsome, joyless, thoughtful,demure, sedate, discreet, staid, self-controlled, well-regulated, formal,austere, purposed, deliberate, cold-blooded, determined
克莱儿整理
解释:
adj. moving or playing loosely: roving in sport: frisky: wandering from rectitude: licentious: running to excess: unrestrained: irregular.—n. a wanton or lewd person esp. a female: a trifler.—v.i. to ramble without restraint: to frolic: to play lasciviously.—adv. Wan′tonly.—n. Wan′tonness.
整理:希欧多尔
例句:
- Tears rushed into my eyes; surely this was a wanton display of the power of the destroyer. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- What fiend more wanton in his mischief, what damned soul more worthy of perdition! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- What a wanton waste of talent is that for a civilized nation! 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- He had in mind that no more would he run from the wanton attacks of old Tublat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Now, good people all,' said he, 'this is wanton waste of time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- He was obsessed with horror of wanton bloodshed and with indignation at the insolence of armed injustice. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The nineteenth century wantons in its giant adolescence; the Titan boy uproots mountains in his game, and hurls rocks in his wild sport. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
录入:特德