DEBAUCHEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debauchee mean? 

• DEBAUCHEE (noun)
  The noun DEBAUCHEE has 1 sense:

1. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

  Familiarity information: DEBAUCHEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBAUCHEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

debauchee; libertine; rounder

Hypernyms ("debauchee" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "debauchee"):

adulterer; fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)

gigolo (a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman)

blood; profligate; rake; rakehell; rip; roue (a dissolute man in fashionable society)

ladies' man; lady killer; seducer (a man who takes advantage of women)

swinger; tramp (a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex)

debaucher; ravisher; violator (someone who assaults others sexually)

philanderer; womaniser; womanizer (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)

Derivation:

debauch (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality)

 Context examples 

I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a grey, florid man with a hard empty face—the pioneer debauchee who during one phase of American life brought back to the eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)