Dissolute
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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