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...
- Official accounts of his character and career, which portray him as dissolute and incompetent, have been filtered through the propaganda of his successful...
- culture earned him the title "the first gentleman of England", but his dissolute way of life and poor relationships with his parents and his wife, Caroline...
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- accompanying Ruth but after forty paces left her. Thereafter she led a dissolute life. According to the Jerusalem Talmud, Goliath was born by polyspermy...
- that the said movement was indeed a big and well-planned conspiracy to dissolute the Spanish Sovereignty in the Philippines. The so-called Cavite Mutiny...
- 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...
- Whittier High School, which his parents thought resulted in Harold's dissolute lifestyle, before he contracted tuberculosis (that killed him in 1933)...
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