Dissolute
/ˈdɪsəljuːt/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Adjective
- 1 Unrestrained by morality.
- 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 unrestrained by convention or morality wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency."
Etymology
From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.