Dissolute
121degraded — adjective 1. lowered in value the dollar is low a debased currency • Syn: ↑debased, ↑devalued • Similar to: ↑low 2. unrestrained by convention or morality Congr …
122dissipated — adjective 1. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance led a dissipated life a betting man a card playing son of a bitch a gambling fool sporting gents and their ladies • Syn: ↑betting, ↑ …
123dissolutely — adverb in a dissolute way • Syn: ↑profligately • Derived from adjective: ↑dissolute, ↑profligate (for: ↑profligately) …
124Don Juan — n. a seducer of women; a libertine. Etymology: name of a legendary Sp. nobleman celebrated in fiction, e.g. by Byron * * * noun 1. a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas • Instance… …
125libertine — n. & adj. n. 1 a dissolute or licentious person. 2 a free thinker on religion. 3 a person who follows his or her own inclinations. adj. 1 licentious, dissolute. 2 freethinking. 3 following one s own inclinations. Derivatives: libertinage n.… …
126profligate — adj. & n. adj. 1 licentious; dissolute. 2 recklessly extravagant. n. a profligate person. Derivatives: profligacy n. profligately adv. Etymology: L profligatus dissolute, past part. of profligare overthrow, ruin (as PRO (1), fligere strike down) …
127profligately — adverb in a dissolute way • Syn: ↑dissolutely • Derived from adjective: ↑dissolute (for: ↑dissolutely), ↑profligate …
128dis´so|lute´ness — dis|so|lute «DIHS uhoot», adjective. 1. living an immoral life; very wicked; immoral: »The dissolute young man had a very bad reputation. The nobles were lawless and dissolute (John R. Green). SYNONYM(S): dissipated, licentious, profligate, lewd …
