Dissolute

Definition: Dissolute

Dissolute

Adjective

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

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Date "dissolute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, adjective. [Latin expression dissolutus, past participle of dissolvere: compare to the French expression dissolu. See Dissolve.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dissolute

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.

Intemperance

Adjective: intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.

Vice

Unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.

Crosswords: Dissolute

German (lose).

Books

• Dissolute Characters: Irish Literary History Through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen (reference)

• The Dissolute Duke (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions using "dissolute": become dissolute ♦ dissolute life ♦ lead a dissolute life. Additional references.

Albanian

imoral (immoral, promiscuous), i shthurur (debauched, disorganized, dissipated, impure, libertine, licentious, loose, profligate, promiscuous, unrighteous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, 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, dissipated, lecher, libertine, licentious, obscene, obscenity, profligate, rake, rakish, wanton), ‏منغمس في الملذات (self indulgent, sybaritic), ‏متهتك (immoral, profligate), ‏خليع (dissipated, lewd, libertine, licentious, profligate, rake, rakish, uninhibited, wanton). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развратен (abandoned, debauched, fast, filthy, goatish, immoral, impure, lax, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, rakish, reprobate, scarlet, sporty), разпуснат (fast, free, gay, incontinent, lax, loose, profligate, raffish, rakish, self-abandoned, ungovernable, unregenerated, unsteady, wanton), безпътен (abandoned, dissipated, immodest, profligate, reprobate, unsteady). (various references)

Chinese 

蕩 (a pond, move, pool, shake, squander, sweep away, wash), �"�浪. (various references)

Czech

zpustlý (debauched, depraved, desolate, raffish, rakish, uncared for, vicious), zhýralý (debauched, rakish), prostopášný (debauched, libidinous, licentious, loose, profligate, rakish, wanton), nemravný (immoral, indecent, obscene, vicious, wanton), neřestný (depraved, graceless). (various references)

Dutch

opzettelijk bevorderen van ontucht (inducing to lead a dissolute life). (various references)

Farsi 

فاسد (Corrupt, Gamy, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rake, Rancid, Reechy, Reprobate, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Vile, Villainous), فاجر (Rake, Rakish), هرزه (Bawdy, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), ازروی هرزگی , بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Rake, Reprobate, Vile). (various references)

Finnish

irstas (licentious, loose). (various references)

French

dissolu. (various references)

German

liederlich (cockish, dissipated, dissipatedly, licentious, loose, negligent, raffish, ribald, slatternly, sloppy, slovenly, wanton, wantonly). (various references)

Greek 

έκφυλος (degenerate, deviant), έκλυτος (debauched), άσωτοσ (dissipated, fast, incontinent, libertine, prodigal, rake, roue, squanderer), ακόλαστοσ (debauchee, lecherous, libertine, loose, profligate, rakish), ακόλαστος (libertine). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת�"ולל (bacchanalian, reveller). (various references)

Hungarian

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

Indonesian

risau (licentious), pujur (profligate), jangak. (various references)

Italian

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

Japanese Kanji 

�'�"� 心 (dissolute mind, hardened heart), � 行が修まらない (be dissolute, conduct oneself loosely), 悪僧 (dissolute priest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すさ�"� �"�"ろ (dissolute mind, hardened heart), そ�"うがおさまらない (be dissolute, conduct oneself loosely), あくそう (dissolute priest, evil countenance). (various references)

Manx

raistylagh (dissoluteness, lecherous, raffish, rakish). (various references)

Norwegian

utsvevende (dissipated, licentious). (various references)

Pig Latin

issoluteday.(various references)

Portuguese

dissoluto (immoral, loose, rackety, rakish), devasso (bawdry, free thinker, immoral, lecherous, lewd, libertine, loose, lothario, playboy, profligate, rakish, roue, salacious, wanton, wasteful), bacântico (debauched, maenadic, orgiastic), airado (frivolous). (various references)

Romanian

destrãbãlat (debauched, debauchee, dissipated, lewd, libertine, lickerish, liquorish, loose, profligate, rake, reinless, reprobate, unruly), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, 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), deşucheat (disuse, gay, libertin, loose, upturning), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), libertin (libertine, rake). (various references)

Russian 

распущенный (dissipated, licentious, unbridled), распутный (lecherous, lewd, libertine, meretricious, profligate, promiscuous, rakish, salacious, wenchy), беспутный (fast, gay, raffish, scampish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raskalašan (abandoned, dissipated, fast, licentious, loose, rakish, rascally, riotous, swinging). (various references)

Spanish

disoluto (debauchee, loose, profligate, raffish, rakish). (various references)

Swedish

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

Turkish

uçarı (abandoned, debauchee, fast, flighty, flippant, frivolous, giddy, rake, rip), sefahat düşkünü (dionysiac, dionysian, dissipated), hovarda (chaser, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond, wild), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked), çapkın (amorist, chaser, debauchee, flirt, flirtatious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, lothario, profligate, rake, rakish, rascal, rip, rogue, roguish, roue, vagabond, varlet, villain, wolf, womanizer). (various references)

Ukrainian

розслаблений (creeping, enervate), розпущений (wanton). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chơi bời phóng đãng. (various references)

dissoluta, dissolutae, dissolutas, dissolutis, dissolutum, dissolutus, flagitiosissime, fluxum, fluxus, profligatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dissolute": dissolutely, dissoluteness, dissolutenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dissolute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desfoutre, desolute, disolute, dissalute, dissolutes, disssolute. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: solitudes.

-1 letter: duelists, lousiest, outsides, solidest, solitude, toluides.

-2 letters: delists, dilutes, duelist, lotuses, loudest, outlies, outside, solidus, solutes, studies, studios, tedious, tissued, toluide, toluids, tousled, tousles, tussled.

-3 letters: deists, delist, desist, dilute, disuse, dossel, dossil, douses, dulses, duties, idlest, islets, issued, istles, listed, louies, loused, louses, louted, lusted, odists, oldest, oldies, ousels, ousted, outlie, setous.

+2 letters: dissolutely, seditiously, solicitudes.

+3 letters: despiteously.

+4 letters: desultoriness, dissoluteness, nucleotidases.

+5 letters: devolutionists, discourteously, diverticuloses, diverticulosis, documentalists, foundationless, idolatrousness, outlandishness, superdiplomats.