wanton vs bear
bear vs wantonwanton and bear both are nouns.
wanton is an adjective but bear is not an adjective.
wanton and bear both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wanton | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| bear | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As verbs,
bear is a hypernym of
wanton; that is, bear is a
word with a broader meaning than wanton:
- wanton: behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- bear: behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
| wanton (noun) | bear (noun) |
|---|---|
| lewd or lascivious woman | massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws |
| an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price |
| wanton (adjective) | bear (adjective) |
|---|---|
| casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | |
| occurring without motivation or provocation |
| wanton (verb) | bear (verb) |
|---|---|
| behave extremely cruelly and brutally | be pregnant with |
| engage in amorous play | cause to be born |
| become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | have on one's person |
| spend wastefully | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself |
| waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | put up with something or somebody unpleasant |
| indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | move while holding up or supporting |
| support or hold in a certain manner | |
| bring forth | |
| maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | |
| have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | |
| bring in | |
| take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | |
| have | |
| contain or hold; have within |
Words related to "wanton"
- acquit
- act
- bear
- behave
- butterfly
- carry
- chat up
- comport
- conduct
- consume
- coquet
- coquette
- dally
- deport
- depreciation
- derogation
- disparagement
- do
- drop
- easy
- expend
- flirt
- light
- light-o'-love
- light-of-love
- live
- loose
- luxuriate
- mash
- motiveless
- philander
- piddle
- piddle away
- promiscuous
- romance
- sensualist
- sex
- sex activity
- sexual activity
- sexual practice
- sluttish
- spend
- squander
- trifle
- trifle away
- unchaste
- unmotivated
- unprovoked
- wanton away
- wantonness
- ware
- waste
Words related to "bear"
- American black bear
- Asiatic black bear
- Euarctos americanus
- Melursus ursinus
- Selenarctos thibetanus
- Thalarctos maritimus
- Ursidae
- Ursus Maritimus
- Ursus americanus
- Ursus arctos
- Ursus thibetanus
- Ursus ursinus
- abide
- accept
- acquit
- act
- act as
- act involuntarily
- act reflexively
- allow
- assert
- assume
- backslap
- balance
- bear
- bear cub
- bear out
- bear up
- bearable
- bearer
- bearing
- behave
- bend over backwards
- birth
- black bear
- bluster
- break down
- bring forth
- bring in
- brook
- brown bear
- bruin
- bull
- bungle
- calve
- carnivore
- carry
- carry the can
- carry to term
- clear
- comport
- conceive
- conduct
- confine
- contain
- countenance
- create
- crop
- cub
- dally
- dawdle
- deal
- deliver
- deport
- digest
- displace
- dissemble
- do
- drop
- earn
- enclose
- endure
- entertain
- expect
- experience
- face the music
- fall over backwards
- family Ursidae
- farrow
- fawn
- feature
- feel
- fluster
- foal
- follow
- footle
- freeze
- frivol
- frogmarch
- fruit
- gain
- gestate
- give birth
- harbor
- harbour
- have
- have a bun in the oven
- have got
- have young
- hold
- hold in
- hold still for
- hugger mugger
- ice bear
- include
- investment
- investment funds
- investor
- jest
- joke
- kitten
- labor
- labour
- lamb
- let
- lie in
- litter
- live with
- loosen up
- lose it
- make
- make as if
- menace
- move
- net
- nurse
- optimise
- optimize
- overbear
- pay
- pay off
- permit
- piffle
- pig
- piggyback
- play
- poise
- polar bear
- pose
- posture
- presume
- pretend
- produce
- puff up
- pull in
- pup
- put forward
- put up
- quack
- rage
- ramp
- realise
- realize
- relax
- retain
- romanticize
- sauce
- seed
- sentimentalise
- sentimentalize
- sentimentise
- sentimentize
- sit out
- sling
- sloth bear
- snap
- spaz
- spin off
- stand
- stand for
- stick out
- stomach
- stooge
- stoop
- storm
- suffer
- support
- swagger
- swallow
- swash
- swell
- take
- take a joke
- take in
- take lying down
- take over
- thug
- tolerate
- toy
- transport
- trifle
- turn out
- twin
- vulgarise
- vulgarize
- walk around
- wanton
- wear
- whelp
- wildin'
- yield
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