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insolent
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ?nsol?ns (“unaccustomed, unwanted, unusual, immoderate, excessive, arrogant, insolent”), from in- (privative prefix) + sol?ns, present participle of solere (“to be accustomed, to be wont”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??ns?.l?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /??ns?.l?nt/
Adjective
insolent (comparative more insolent, superlative most insolent)
- Insulting in manner or words.
- Synonyms: arrogant, bold, cocky, impudent
- Rude.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus, […]!”
- Synonyms: disrespectful, impertinent, insubordinate, offensive
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cheeky
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Derived terms
- insolently
Related terms
Translations
Noun
insolent (plural insolents)
- A person who is insolent.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 78:
- What a way do you put yourself in miss! said the insolent.
- 2010, Louisa Shea, The Cynic Enlightenment: Diogenes in the Salon (page 7)
- Diogenes Laertius reports that Diogenes was apt to take the identification with the dog at face value, as when he lifted his leg and relieved himself on a group of young insolents who teased him with a dog's bone […]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 78:
Further reading
- insolent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- insolent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- insolent at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Neilston
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin insolens, attested from 1653.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /in.so?lent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /in.su?len/
Adjective
insolent (masculine and feminine plural insolents)
- insolent
Derived terms
- insolentment
Related terms
- insolència
References
Further reading
- “insolent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “insolent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “insolent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin insolens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.s?.l??/
- Homophone: insolents
Adjective
insolent (feminine singular insolente, masculine plural insolents, feminine plural insolentes)
- insolent
Derived terms
- insolemment
Related terms
- insolence
Further reading
- “insolent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin insolens.
Adjective
insolent m (feminine singular insolenta, masculine plural insolents, feminine plural insolentas)
- insolent
Derived terms
- insolentament
Related terms
- insoléncia
Romanian
Etymology
From French insolent, from Latin insolens.
Adjective
insolent m or n (feminine singular insolent?, masculine plural insolen?i, feminine and neuter plural insolente)
- insolent
Declension
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wanton
English
Etymology
From Middle English wantoun, wantowen, wanto?en, wantowe (“uneducated; unrestrained; licentious; sportive; playful”), from wan- (“not, un-, mis-”) + towen, i-towen (“educated”, literally “towed; led; drawn”), from Old English togen, ?etogen, past participle of t?on (“to train, discipline”), equivalent to wan- +? towed.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?nt?n/
- (US) enPR: wän't?n, IPA(key): /?w?nt?n/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?w?nt?n/, /?w?nt?n/
- Rhymes: -?nt?n
- Homophone: wonton (some accents)
Adjective
wanton (comparative wantoner, superlative wantonest)
- (archaic) Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.1:
- As Flies to wanton Boyes are we to th' Gods, / They kill us for their sport.
- 1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper [...] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87:
- 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wi?h to ?hine, the thir?t to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ?uch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, loo?e, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, va?t / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.1:
- (obsolete) Playful, sportive; merry or carefree.
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1:
- 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.
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1:
- Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
- 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 [...].
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:
- I know I ought never to have dreamt of sending that valentine—forgive me, sir—it was a wanton thing which no woman with any self-respect should have done.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
- People should not marry too young, because, if they do, the children will be weak and female, the wives will become wanton, and the husbands stunted in their growth.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:
- Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
- Edward himself, now thoroughly enlightened on her character, had no scruple in believing her capable of the utmost meanness of wanton ill-nature.
- 2009, Ben White, The Guardian, 10 Aug 2009:
- these developments in Gaza are a consequence of the state of siege that the tiny territory has been under – a society that has been fenced-in, starved, and seen its very fabric torn apart by unemployment and wanton military destruction.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
- (archaic) Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive.
- 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I:
- 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.
- 1876, John Ruskin, Letters, 19 Jan 1876:
- But do not think it argues change of temper since I wrote the Frère review, or a wanton praise of one man and blame of another.
- 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I:
Synonyms
- (undisciplined): see Thesaurus:wanton
- (playful, overly happy): frolicsome, playful
- (lewd): lewd, lustful, unchaste
- (capriciously violent): inhumane, callous, merciless
- (luxuriant): extravagant, lavish, luxuriant, prodigal, unrestrained
Derived terms
- wanton kittens make sober cats
Translations
Noun
wanton (plural wantons)
- A pampered or coddled person.
- c. 1591-1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- 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 […]
- c. 1591-1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- An overly playful person; a trifler.
- 1611, Ben Jonson, Oberon, the Faery Prince
- Peace, my wantons; he will do / More than you can aim unto.
- 1898: Charles Dickens: A Critical Study by George Gissing
- This quiet remark serves to remind one, among other things that, Dickens was not without his reasons for a spirit of distrust towards religion by law established, as well as towards sundry other forms of religion--the spirit which, especially in his early career, was often misunderstood as hostility to religion in itself, a wanton mocking at sacred things.
- A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
- (archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
- 1891: Jerusalem: Its History and Hope by Mrs. Oliphant
- ...paints with tremendous force the adulteries of the two wantons Aholah and Aholibah, Israel and Judah, and their love of strangers...
- 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram
- However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say ‘coming home to-night, dearie’ and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
- 1891: Jerusalem: Its History and Hope by Mrs. Oliphant
Translations
Verb
wanton (third-person singular simple present wantons, present participle wantoning, simple past and past participle wantoned)
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Prologue,[1]
- […] 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.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5, lines 294-296,[2]
- […] Nature here
- Wantond as in her prime, and plaid at will
- Her Virgin Fancies […]
- c. 1820, Charles Lamb, “Christ’s Hospital, Five and Thirty Years Ago” in Essays of Elia, Paris: Baudry’s European Library, 1835, p. 15,[3]
- How merrily we would sally into the fields; and strip under the first warmth of the sun; and wanton like young dace in the streams […]
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: Hogarth Press, 1930, Part 2, 9, p. 217,[4]
- It might well be, said Mrs. McNab, wantoning on with her memories […]
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Prologue,[1]
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- The young man wantoned away his inheritance.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary entry for 28 April, 1660, in Henry B. Wheatley (ed.), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, London: George Bell, 1905, Volume 8, p.290,[5]
- […] with this money the King shall wanton away his time in pleasures […]
- 1881, Christina Rossetti, Called to Be Saints, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, “St. Matthias, Apostle,” p. 153,[6]
- […] Samson, having wantoned away his strength and paying the penalty […]
- 1929, Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu (translators), “A Song of an Old General” in The Jade Mountain, New York: Vintage, 1972, p. 203,[7]
- And never would he wanton his cause away with wine.
- 1948, Digby George Gerahty (as Robert Standish), Elephant Walk, New York: Macmillan, 1949, Chapter 15, p. 214,[8]
- If either of us felt the respect for George that you imply by your manner, you know perfectly well that we wouldn’t have wantoned away the day as we have.
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 62,,[9]
- Be loving and courteous to your fellow Servants, not gigling or idling out your time, or wantoning in the society of men […]
- […] whole herds or flocks of other women securely, and scarce regarded, traverse the park, the play, the opera, and the assembly; and though, for the most part at least, they are at last devoured, yet for a long time do they wanton in liberty, without disturbance or controul.
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 62,,[9]
Synonyms
- (to act wantonly): See Thesaurus:harlotize
Translations
Related terms
- wantonly
- wantonness
- wantonry
Anagrams
- Antwon
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