dissolute
2
8.8
- adjective
- /ˈdɪsəˌluːt/
- Formal
- But you're idle, dissolute and unprincipled.
- a dissolute way of life
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Watch on YouTubeBut it sort of does feel like this the proper shambolic, dissolute end to a campaign that really never should have been.
- But it sort of does feel like this the proper shambolic, dissolute end to a campaign that really never should have been.
- He's going to go on a little bit further and talk about how people who are really just basically dissolute hedonists, right?
- OK, We were watching at a time when I think the family was actually breaking up and was dissolute.
- It's it's dissolute and paralytic thought to think about tomorrow's conversion and neglect today's.
Examples
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Kevin Spacey plays a philosophy professor—broken, bitter, dissolute—in The Life of David Gale (2003).
Academic text (2007) -
He's become dissolute.
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The various cars that left her house late at night made him see her as dissolute.
Fiction book (1997) -
The religious life was a bulwark against the dissolute life.
Fiction book (2002) -
I'd heard enough about those dissolute playboys.
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I can't understand how someone whose instincts are so generous... could lead such a dissolute life.
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The vast, dissolute city was for me a wasteland, the refuge of my pleasures.
Fiction book (1994) -
When the father unlocked the door three days later, his family tumbled out, dissolute and overcome with hilarity.
Fiction book (2002) -
"No good, any of them—immoral, dissolute, and hopelessly vulgar!"
Fiction book (1993) -
Many critics described the artist's behavior as dissolute, often indulging in reckless parties and excess.
Synonyms
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8.0
Not following normal moral rules and behaving badly
19
7.7
Behaving in a way that ignores social rules about sex
7
9.6
Spends money or uses resources wastefully and shows little care about right and wrong
5
5.5
Behaving in a way that ignores moral rules
4
8.7
Living in a way that enjoys a lot of sex and other pleasures without caring what is right
2
9.6
Showing no concern for moral rules, especially about sex
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7.5
Behaving in a wild way that breaks social rules
1
8.6
A person who spends health and money on pleasure without self control
Antonyms
How Dissolute
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dissolute comes from the Latin dissolutus, meaning 'loosened', made from dis- ('apart') and solvere ('to loosen'). It shares the same root as dissolve and solve, so a dissolute person is like someone 'loosened' from rules, living wildly and without moral control.