Dissolute

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dissolute
    adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
           debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
           and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
           {debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated},
           {dissolute}, {libertine}, {profligate}, {riotous},
           {fast}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus, p. p. of dissolvere:
   cf. F. dissolu. See {Dissolve}.]
   1. With nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] --Spenser.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct;
      recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate;
      wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier."
      --Motley.

   Syn: Uncurbed; unbridled; disorderly; unrestrained; reckless;
        wild; wanton; vicious; lax; licentious; lewd; rakish;
        debauched; profligate.
        [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissolute":
      abandoned, amoral, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased,
      debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissipated,
      fast, free, free-living, gallant, gay, hedonistic, high-living,
      immoral, incontinent, intemperate, lax, libidinous, licentious,
      light, loose, morally polluted, overindulgent, perverted, polluted,
      profligate, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish,
      reprobate, riotous, rotten, self-indulgent, slack,
      steeped in iniquity, tainted, unbridled, unprincipled,
      unrestrained, vice-corrupted, vitiated, wanton, warped, wayward,
      wild

    

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