DISSOLUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissolute mean? 

• DISSOLUTE (adjective)
  The adjective DISSOLUTE has 1 sense:

1. unrestrained by convention or morality

  Familiarity information: DISSOLUTE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSOLUTE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrestrained by convention or morality

Synonyms:

debauched; degenerate; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; fast; libertine; profligate; riotous

Context example:

fast women

Similar:

immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)

Derivation:

dissoluteness (indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures)

 Context examples 

Sir, returned Mr. Littimer, slightly lifting up his eyebrows, but not his eyes, there was a young woman who fell into dissolute courses, that I endeavoured to save, sir, but could not rescue.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)