Word Meanings - WANTONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.

Related words: (words related to WANTONIZE)

• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• FROLICFUL
  Frolicsome.
• WANTONIZE
  To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
• FROLIC
  Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller. (more info) fr, Dan. fro, OS. fr, cf. Icel. fr swift; all
• BEHAVE
  to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. 1. To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak. 2. To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear;
• WANTONLY
  1. In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously. 2. Unintentionally; accidentally. J. Dee.
• FROLICSOME
  Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive. Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors. Sir W. Scott. -- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.
• FROLICLY
  In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. Beau. & Fl.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• MISBEHAVED
  Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. "A misbehaved and sullen wench." Shak.