dissolute

From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsəljuːt/

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).

• debauched, dissipated, hedonic, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, profligate, wanton

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.

• outslides, slideouts, solitudes

dissolute

1. feminine plural of dissoluto

dissolute f

1. plural of dissoluta

dissolūte

1. vocative masculine singular of dissolūtus

• “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.