All dissolute synonyms
dis·so·lute
D d adj dissolute
- abandoned — An abandoned place or building is no longer used or occupied.
- corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
- degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- depraved — Depraved actions, things, or people are morally bad or evil.
- dissipated — indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
- fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- intemperate — given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- lax — not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lewd — inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
- libertine — a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- light — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- raffish — mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish: a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions.
- rakish — smart; jaunty; dashing: a hat worn at a rakish angle.
- reprobate — a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
- slack — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- swift — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.
- unrestrained — not restrained or controlled; uncontrolled or uncontrollable: the unrestrained birthrate in some countries.
- vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- wanton — done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
- wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
- wicked — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- unconstrained — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nighthawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
- on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
adjective dissolute
- immoral — violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.
- self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- indulgent — characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.