Meaning of DISSIPATED
| Pronunciation: | | 'disu`peytid
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
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| | Synonyms: | | betting, card-playing, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute, fast, gambling, immoral, indulgent, libertine, profligate, riotous, sporting |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis"si*pa`ted\, a.
1. Squandered; scattered. ``Dissipated wealth.'' --Johnson.
2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of
pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.
A life irregular and dissipated. --Johnson.
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| | Related Terms: | | abandoned, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, broadcast, burnt up, by the board, consumed, contracted, curtailed, debauched, decreased, deflated, depleted, diffuse, diminished, discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissolute, distributed, down the drain, drained, dropped, eaten up, effete, eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen, fast, finished, forfeit, forfeited, free, free-living, gallant, gay, gone, gone to waste, high-living, impoverished, irretrievable, less, lesser, licentious, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent, out the window, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reduced, retrenched, riotous, run to seed, scaled-down, scattered, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, sparse, spent, sporadic, spread, squandered, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, unbridled, used, used up, wasted, watered-down, weakened, widespread, wild, worn, worn away, worn-out |
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