'Libertine' definitions:
Definition of 'libertine'
(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]
noun
Definition of 'Libertine'
From: GCIDE
- Libertine \Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ]
- 1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- You are too much libertine. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Libertine'
From: GCIDE
- Libertine \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[i^]n), n. [L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal.]
- 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. [1913 Webster]
- Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'libertine'
From: Easton
- Libertine found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there established a synagogue.
Synonyms of 'libertine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adulterer,
- amoral,
- bestial,
- broad-minded,
- carnal,
- Casanova,
- debauched,
- debauchee,
- debaucher,
- decadent,
- degenerate,
- depraved,
- dirty,
- dirty old man,
- dissolute,
- Don Juan,
- fast,
- filthy,
- fornicator,
- free lance,
- free spirit,
- free trader,
- freethinker,
- freethinking,
- gallant,
- gay deceiver,
- gay dog,
- goatish,
- heartbreaker,
- hircine,
- horny,
- immoral,
- incontinent,
- independent,
- individualist,
- isolationist,
- lady-killer,
- lascivious,
- latitudinarian,
- lecher,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libidinous,
- licentious,
- Lothario,
- lover-boy,
- lubricious,
- lubricous,
- lustful,
- masher,
- mugwump,
- neutral,
- nonpartisan,
- old goat,
- open-minded,
- Paphian,
- philander,
- philanderer,
- philandering,
- profligate,
- prurient,
- rake,
- rakehell,
- rakish,
- randy,
- reprobate,
- rip,
- roue,
- rounder,
- rugged individualist,
- ruttish,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- satyrical,
- seducer,
- skirt chaser,
- swinger,
- third force,
- third world,
- tolerant,
- unbigoted,
- walking phallus,
- wanton,
- whoremonger,
- wolf,
- woman chaser,
- womanizer