Meaning of DISSOLUTE
| Pronunciation: | | 'disu`loot
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| | Definition: | | [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: | | debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, immoral, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus, p. p. of dissolvere:
cf. F. dissolu. See {Dissolve}.]
1. With nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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