Definition of Dissolute. Meaning of Dissolute. Synonyms of Dissolute

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Definition of Dissolute

Dissolute
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.

Meaning of Dissolute from wikipedia

- In law, dissolution is any of several legal events that terminate a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, corporation, or union. Dissolution...
- 浪人, IPA: [ɾoːɲiɴ], 'drifter' or 'wandering man', lit. 'unrestrained or dissolute person') was a samurai who had no lord or master and in some cases, had...
- speaks Russian, her boss introduces her to Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov, the dissolute and immature son of wealthy Russian oligarch Nikolai Zakharov. Vanya is...
- Official accounts of his character and career, which portray him as dissolute and incompetent, have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful...
- accompanying Ruth but after forty paces left her. Thereafter she led a dissolute life. According to the Jerusalem Talmud, Goliath was born by polyspermy...
- Whittier High School, which his parents thought resulted in Harold's dissolute lifestyle, before he contracted tuberculosis (that killed him in 1933)...
- In 1866, the state of Virginia, fearing that it would be "overrun with dissolute and abandoned characters", p****ed an Act Providing for the Punishment...
- The dissolute Syrian army spent more time in Antioch's open-air taverns than with their units (engraving by William Miller after a drawing by H. Warren...
- Barnabò Visconti). Mastino's son Cangrande II (1351–1359) was a cruel, dissolute, and su****ious tyrant; not trusting his own subjects, he surrounded himself...
- Kershaw (2000), p. 766 Willett, Ralph (May 1989). "Hot Swing and the Dissolute Life: Youth, Style and Po****r Music in Europe 1939–49". Po****r Music...