Merry, wanton, lascivious, lustful.

Foolish, silly. (In quot. 1225 ? wanton.)

Esp. of a woman or her behaviour: promiscuous; licentious; immoral. Now rare (archaic in later use).

That woos. That solicits in love; courting, as a lover; †wanton.

Of conduct, behaviour, etc.: characterized by or encouraging wantonness or lasciviousness. Obsolete.

Lewd, vulgar.

Lustful; not chaste, sexually promiscuous. Of a person (esp. a woman).

Wanton.

Wanton, profligate; self-indulgent.

Of persons, their habits, writings, etc.: Free from moral restraint; lax in principle, conduct, or speech; chiefly in narrower sense, unchaste…

Disregarding the restraints of chastity; libertine, lascivious, lewd. In modern usage the prevailing sense.

Characteristic of or resembling a libertine (sense A. 3); dissolute, licentious.

In early use: relating to or engaging in promiscuous sexual activity; licentious, abandoned. Later (usually as an attributive use of prostitute, n.…

Esp. of a woman: sexually immodest, promiscuous; wanton.

Going beyond the bounds of what is considered to be normal, acceptable, or proper; unrestrained, wild; immoderate, excessive; morally lax, loose…

Light, wanton. (Cf. slippery, adj. 5.)

Licentious, wanton, unchaste; of doubtful morality.

Engaging in or inclined to amorous dalliance or sexual play; (in later use also) devoted to pleasure; inclined to indulge in pursuits regarded as…

Originally of persons and later also more widely: dedicated to social pleasures; dissolute, promiscuous; frivolous, hedonistic. Also (esp. in to g…

transferred. Licentious, lewd; in 18–19th centuries applied to prostitutes.

With the sense ‘belonging to or characteristic of the suburbs (esp. of London), when characterized as a place of immoral or licentious…

Of a person: Having the qualities of a wag; playfully mischievous. †Also, wanton, loose.

Loose or lax; wanton.

= suburban, adj., spec. (in early use often with negative sense) with reference to the immoral or licentious practices of the suburbs, esp. of London…

Of a writer: that writes about love or sexual desire; whose work is thought to or intended to incite lust and lasciviousness; lewd; suggestive. Now…

That lives freely, or in freedom; given to or characterized by free indulgence of the appetites; liberal, uninhibited.

Dissolute, licentious; = libertine, adj. 1.

‘Relating to the licentious manners of Corinth’ (Johnson), profligate. In 19th century use: given to elegant dissipation.

Prodigal, licentious; (in early use also) †incorrigible.

Of persons. Loose in morals. Obsolete. rare.

Of a person: living or behaving in an extravagant, unconventional, or dissipated way. Also: designating the lifestyle of such a person, as in fast…

Coarse, lewd. Obsolete.

In allied senses, chiefly unfavourable. (With senses A. 2c, A. 2d, cf. French brusque.) ‘Fast’ of life.

dialect. Of a horse: Skittish, unmanageable; high-mettled. Hence (?) of persons (see quot. 1855).

Given to the use of slang; of a fast or rakish character; impertinent.

Of a person: living in an irregular or unrestrained way; careless, ‘flighty’. Cf. sense phrases 2c. regional in later use.

Somewhat or moderately fast (in various senses of the adjective).

Somewhat loose.

Given to frequenting the slums.

Rapid.

U.S. Unrestrained or rebellious in one's behaviour: spec. (esp. of a woman) flirtatious or sexually promiscuous; wanton.

colloquial (originally Caribbean). derogatory. Of a person, esp. a woman: sexually promiscuous, licentious. Also: immoral, indecent. Cf. loose, adj.…