Dissipated

Definition: Dissipated

Dissipated

Adjective

1. Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women".

2. 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".

Date "dissipated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Dissipated

Synonyms: betting (adj), card-playing (adj), debauched (adj), degenerate (adj), degraded (adj), dissolute (adj), fast (adj), gambling (adj), libertine (adj), profligate (adj), riotous (adj), sporting (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impurity	Unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose.
Prodigality	Adjective: prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed; (liberal).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	The world is too well instructed in, and too forward to allow of, this way of dissolving of governments, to need any more to be said of it; and there wants not much argument to prove, that where the society is dissolved, the government cannot remain; that being as impossible, as for the frame of an house to subsist when the materials of it are scattered and dissipated by a whirl-wind, or jumbled into a confused heap by an earthquake. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Upon my word we shall be absolutely dissipated.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The vague forms of all the reasonings thrown out by his mind trembled, and were dissipated one after another in smoke.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In vitro experiments in human fetal lung explants show that inducible biochemical effects have dissipated by 7 days although structural changes persist. (references)
Economic History	Ireland	The strong initial interest of some 10 IPP consortia in participating in this new liberalized market has dissipated with only 2 IPP consortia (ESB/Statoil and Viridian) currently constructing new power generation plants. (references)
	Bolivia	Roughly contemporaneous with the Tiwanakan culture, the Moxos in the eastern lowlands and the Mollos north of present-day La Paz also developed advanced agricultural societies that had dissipated by the 13th century of our era. (references)
	Russia	Despite a positive year for growth in 2000, unresolved structural economic problems, combined with real effective exchange rate appreciation that has dissipated the beneficial effects of the 1998 devaluation have kept massive new foreign investment away. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	The difficulties attending early emigrations will be dissipated even in the most remote parts.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dissipated" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 75.81% of the time. "Dissipated" is used about 124 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	75.81%	94	33,845
Lexical Verb (past tense)	19.35%	24	71,196
Adjective (general or positive)	4.84%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	124	N/A

Expressions using "dissipated": a dissipated life ♦ lead a dissipated life. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "dissipated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plangprishës, i shthurur (debauched, disorganized, dissolute, impure, libertine, licentious, loose, profligate, promiscuous, unrighteous), i shpërndarë (diffuse, diffused, diffusive, disseminated, rambling, scattered, straggling), i shpërdoruar, i humbur kot, i dhënë pas qejfeve. (various references)

Arabic		‏فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), ‏فاجر (bawdy, dissolute, lecher, libertine, licentious, obscene, obscenity, profligate, rake, rakish, wanton), ‏مبدد (lavished, squandered, wasted), ‏خليع (dissolute, lewd, libertine, licentious, profligate, rake, rakish, uninhibited, wanton). (various references)

Bulgarian		разгулен (bacchanal, rackety, raffish), безпътен (abandoned, dissolute, immodest, profligate, reprobate, unsteady). (various references)

Chinese		被驱散, 浪 (breaker, unrestrained, wave), 宕 (put off). (various references)

Czech		rozptýlený (diffuse, diffused, diffusive, sparse). (various references)

Danish		energi afgivet per puls (energy dissipated per pulse), energi afgivet per impuls (energy dissipated per pulse). (various references)

Dutch		gedissipeerd vermogen (dissipated power), energiedissipatie per puls (energy dissipated per pulse). (various references)

French		débauché (dissolute). (various references)

German		ausschweifend (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, excessive, voluptuous), verschwendete (lavished, squandered, wasted, wastes). (various references)

Greek		άσωτοσ (dissolute, fast, incontinent, libertine, prodigal, rake, roue, squanderer). (various references)

Hebrew		מת� ון (decadent, degenerated). (various references)

Hungarian		kicsapongó (dissolute, fast, lecherous, libertine, licentious, pornerastic, profligate, raffish, rakish, riotous, roue). (various references)

Italian		dissipato (fast, raffish), licenzioso (debauched, dissolute, frolicsome, indecent, lawless, licentious, loose, obscene, profligate, raffish, ribald, riotous, rollicking, unchecked, undisciplined, unrestrained, wanton, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"楽 (dissipation, hobby, pastime), �"��' (licentious, profligate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		どうらく (dissipation, hobby, pastime), ほうらつ (licentious, profligate). (various references)

Norwegian		utsvevende (dissolute, licentious). (various references)

Pig Latin		issipatedday

Portuguese		dissipado, difuso (absent minded, diffuse, diffused, disseminated, prolix, scattered), espaldar (back rest). (various references)

Romanian		destrãbãlat (debauched, debauchee, dissolute, lewd, libertine, lickerish, liquorish, loose, profligate, rake, reinless, reprobate, unruly), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster), risipitor (extravagant, improvident, luxurious, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful), risipit (besprent, broadcast, scattered, sparse), cheltuitor (extravagant, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful, waster), împrãştiat (absent minded, besprent, disorderly, giddy, littery, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, scattered, sparse, straggling, woolly-headed). (various references)

Russian		рассеянный (absent, absentminded, absent-minded, diffuse, disseminated, distracted, distrait, moony, vague, wool gathering), распущенный (dissolute, licentious, unbridled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rasut (bulk, scattered, straggling), raskalašan (abandoned, dissolute, fast, licentious, loose, rakish, rascally, riotous, swinging). (various references)

Spanish		disipado (dispeled, sporty). (various references)

Swedish		utsvävande (abandoned, dissolute, licentious, profligate, rakish, riotous, wild). (various references)

Turkish		dağılmış (decayed, diffuse, effuse, scattered, spread, tapped, untidy), sefahat düşkünü (dionysiac, dionysian, dissolute), harcanmış (spent, used up), ayyaş (alcoholic, bacchanal, bacchant, bibber, bibulous, boozy, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, habitual drunkard, intemperate, lush, rounder, soak, sot, sottish, souse, sponge, toper, wino), çarçur edilmiş. (various references)

Ukrainian		розсіяний (diffuse, diffused, dispersed, disseminated, sparse), розтрачений (dilapidated), безпутний (gay, raffish, rowdy). (various references)

Vietnamese		bị xua tan. (various references)

Welsh		ofer (abandoned, idle, prodical, vain, waste). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dissipated": dissipatedly, dissipatedness, dissipatednesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dissipated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desipate, dessipate, disapate, disepate, disimpacted, disipate, dissapate, dissapated, dissiapte, dissicated, dissimate, dissipiate, dissipute, disspated. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dissipated" (pronounced di"supā'tud)
8	-i" s u p ā' t u d	anticipated, participated, unanticipated.
7	-s u p ā' t u d	emancipated.
6	-u p ā' t u d	constipated, syncopated.
4	-ā' t u d	abbreviated, abdicated, abrogated, accelerated, accentuated, acclimated, accommodated, accumulated, activated, adjudicated, adulterated, advocated, affiliated, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, alienated, alleviated, allocated, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, antiquated, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assimilated, associated, attenuated, authenticated, automated, backdated, bifurcated, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, castigated, castrated, celebrated, chlorinated, circulated, collaborated, commemorated, communicated, compensated, complicated, concentrated, confiscated, congratulated, congregated, consecrated, consolidated, consummated, contaminated, contemplated, cooperated, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, crenelated, culminated, cultivated, deactivated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, degenerated, delegated, deliberated, delineated, demonstrated, denigrated, denominated, depreciated, desegregated, designated, deteriorated, detonated, devaluated, devastated, deviated, dictated, differentiated, dilapidated, discriminated, disintegrated, disseminated, domesticated, dominated, donated, duplicated, educated, elevated, eliminated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emasculated, emigrated, emulated, encapsulated, enumerated, enunciated, eradicated, escalated, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, eviscerated, exacerbated, exaggerated, exasperated, excavated, excommunicated, excoriated, exhilarated, exonerated, expropriated, exterminated, extrapolated, extricated, fabricated, facilitated, fascinated, federated, fixated, flagellated, fluctuated, formulated, frustrated, generated, germinated, glaciated, graduated, gravitated, gyrated, halogenated, hesitated, humiliated, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, impersonated, implicated, impregnated, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incorporated, inculcated, indicated, indoctrinated, infatuated, infiltrated, infuriated, initiated, innovated, inoculated, instigated, insulated, integrated, interpolated, interrogated, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, inundated, invalidated, investigated, invigorated, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, laminated, legislated, levitated, liberated, liquidated, litigated, located, lubricated, mandated, manipulated, marinated, masturbated, mediated, medicated, migrated, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, mitigated, moderated, motivated, mutated, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, necessitated, negotiated, nominated, nonregulated, obligated, obliterated, officiated, operated, opinionated, orchestrated, orientated, originated, outdated, overestimated, overregulated, overstated, oxygenated, penetrated, perforated, permeated, perpetrated, perpetuated, pollinated, pontificated, populated, precipitated, predicated, predominated, prefabricated, premeditated, prognosticated, proliferated, promulgated, propagated, punctuated, radiated, reactivated, reallocated, rebated, recalculated, reciprocated, recreated, redecorated, reevaluated, reformulated, refrigerated, regenerated, regulated, rehabilitated, reincarnated, reintegrated, reinvigorated, reiterated, rejuvenated, relegated, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, repatriated, replicated, repudiated, resonated, resuscitated, retaliated, reverberated, rotated, ruminated, salivated, saturated, segregated, separated, serrated, simulated, situated, sophisticated, speculated, stagnated, stalemated, stimulated, stipulated, subjugated, subordinated, substantiated, suffocated, syndicated, tabulated, terminated, titillated, tolerated, truncated, unadulterated, unaffiliated, unallocated, unappreciated, uncompensated, uncomplicated, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, underestimated, understated, undifferentiated, uneducated, unincorporated, uninitiated, unmitigated, unregulated, unsaturated, unsophisticated, unsubstantiated, venerated, ventilated.
3	-t u d	abated, abducted, abetted, aborted, abstracted, abutted, accented, accepted, accosted, accounted, accredited, acquainted, acquitted, acted, adapted, addicted, adjusted, admitted, adopted, affected, afflicted, affronted, airlifted, alerted, allotted, amounted, annotated, anted, appointed, arrested, assaulted, asserted, assisted, assorted, attempted, attested, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, averted, awaited, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, catapulted, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, circuited, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collected, comforted, commented, committed, commuted, compacted, competed, complemented, completed, complimented, computed, conceited, concerted, concocted, conducted, conflicted, confronted, congested, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consented, consisted, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, contacted, contented, contested, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, corrupted, costed, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crested, crusted, darted, dated, daunted, debated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, dehydrated, dejected, deleted, delighted, delisted, demented, demoted, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, deregulated, desecrated, deserted, destructed, detected, detested, detracted, devoted, digested, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, discounted, discredited, disenchanted, disgusted, disinterested, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, dissented, distorted, distracted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, documented, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, dusted, edited, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elicited, elongated, emitted, enacted, enchanted, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, equated, erected, erupted, escorted, evicted, exacted, exalted, excepted, excerpted, excited, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhorted, existed, exited, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, extorted, extracted, extradited, extroverted, exulted, faceted, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fisted, fitted, flabbergasted, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, foisted, fomented, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frosted, gated, gifted, gloated, glutted, grafted, granted, grated, greeted, grunted, guested, gusted, gutted, halfhearted, hallucinated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, highlighted, hinted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, hunted, ignited, impacted, imparted, implanted, implemented, imported, imprinted, imputed, incited, indebted, indicted, indited, inducted, infected, infested, inflated, inflected, inflicted, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, injected, inserted, insinuated, insisted, inspected, instituted, instructed, insulted, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interested, interjected, interpreted, interrelated, interrupted, intersected, introverted, invented, inverted, invested, invited, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, lamented, lasted, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, listed, looted, lusted, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, manifested, marketed, masted, mated, melted, merited, meted, minted, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, modulated, molested, mounted, multifaceted, muted, nearsighted, negated, neglected, nested, netted, noted, objected, obstructed, omitted, opted, orbited, oriented, ornamented, ousted, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overacted, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overrepresented, overweighted, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, pasted, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, perfected, permitted, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, polluted, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, predated, predicted, preempted, preexisted, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prohibited, projected, promoted, prompted, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protested, protracted, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, readjusted, readmitted, reappointed, rearrested, reasserted, rebutted, recanted, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recruited, redacted, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, refitted, reflected, refuted, regimented, regretted, reignited, reinstated, reinstituted, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvested, reinvited, rejected, related, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, rented, repainted, repeated, repented, replanted, reported, represented, reprinted, reputed, requested, rerouted, resented, resisted, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, rested, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, retested, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotted, rusted, rutted, sainted, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, selected, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, sited, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sorted, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, started, stated, stilted, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, submitted, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suggested, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, tainted, talented, targeted, tasted, taunted, tempted, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, tinted, toasted, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadjusted, unaffected, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompleted, unconnected, uncontested, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, undetected, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmolested, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unstated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untested, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, vented, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-i-p-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: dissipate.
	-2 letters: dipsades, epitasis.
	-3 letters: apsides, daisied, daisies, diapsid, disseat, paddies, pasties, patsies, petsais, saddest, tapises.
	-4 letters: adepts, asides, daises, dassie, deists, desist, didies, diesis, dipsas, dissed, passed, pasted, pastes, pastie, pastis, petsai, pietas, pissed, pistes, pitied, pities, sadist, sepias, siesta, spaded, spades, spaits, spates, spited, spites, stades, stapes, steads, stiped, stipes, tassie, teiids.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-i-p-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: dipeptidases, dissipatedly.
	+4 letters: dissipatedness, superadditions.
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