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Dissolute

//ˈdɪsəljuːt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unrestrained by morality.
  2. 2
    Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.

    "Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute)."

Adjective
  1. 1
    unrestrained by convention or morality wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.

    "[H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.

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