dissolute

English

Etymology

From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsəljuːt/

Adjective

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:

     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).

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• dissolutely
• dissoluteness
• undissolute

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewh₃- (0 c, 30 e)

Translations

dissolute

Armenian: ցոփ (hy) (cʻopʻ), շվայտ (hy) (švayt), զեղխ (hy) (zeġx) Azerbaijani: pozğun (az), əxlaqsız, azğın (az) Bulgarian: разпуснат (bg) (razpusnat), развратен (bg) (razvraten) Chinese: Mandarin: 放蕩 / 放荡 (zh) (fàngdàng) Dutch: losbandig (nl) Estonian: kõlvatu Finnish: irstas (fi), irstaileva (fi), rietas French: dissolu (fr) Galician: perdido, disoluto Greek: ακόλαστος (el) (akólastos) Ancient: ἄσωτος (ásōtos) Hungarian: kicsapongó (hu) Irish: scaoilteach Japanese: 嫌らしい (ja) (iyarashii), エッチ (ja) (etchi) Macedonian: ра́звратен (rázvraten), ра́спуштен (ráspušten), блу́ден (blúden) Maori: karihika Polish: rozwiązły (pl) Portuguese: dissoluto (pt) Russian: распу́щенный (ru) (raspúščennyj), распу́тный (ru) (raspútnyj), развра́тный (ru) (razvrátnyj), (lustful) похо́тливый (ru) (poxótlivyj) Spanish: disoluto (es), perdulario Swedish: utsvävande (sv), tygellös (sv), liderlig (sv), lastbar (sv)

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• outslides, slideouts, solitudes

Italian

Adjective

dissolute

1. feminine plural of dissoluto

Noun

dissolute f

1. plural of dissoluta

Latin

Participle

dissolūte

1. vocative masculine singular of dissolūtus

References

• “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.