'Dissolute' definitions:
Definition of 'dissolute'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Dissolute'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'dissolute'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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