dissolute

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dissolute (comparative more dissolute, superlative most dissolute)

  1. Unrestrained by morality.
  2. Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
    • 2023 April 10, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘White Girl in Danger’ Flips the Script on Soap Operas”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).

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Noun

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dissolute (plural dissolutes)

  1. An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.
    • 1879, The Quarterly Review, volume 148, page 263:
      [H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table.

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Italian

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Adjective

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dissolute

  1. feminine plural of dissoluto

Noun

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dissolute f

  1. plural of dissoluta

Latin

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Participle

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dissolūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of dissolūtus

References

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  • dissolute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dissolute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dissolute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.