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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dissolute \Dis"so*lute\, a. [L. dissolutus p. p. of dissolvere:
cf F. dissolu. See {Dissolve}.]
1. With nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dissolute
adj : unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched},
{degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {libertine}, {profligate},
{riotous}, {fast}]
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