dissolute
Given to excess
Dissolute describes a person given to excessive indulgence in pleasure—drinking, sex, gambling, or other vices—with little regard for morality or responsibility.
The word carries judgment: a dissolute lifestyle suggests self-destruction through lack of restraint.
He spent his inheritance in dissolute living.
The dissolute heir squandered the family fortune.
One lacking moral restraint
- profligateRecklessly extravagant or dissolute
- rakishDashingly unconventional in style
- decadentSelf-indulgent, often corruptly
- licentiousSexually unrestrained behavior
dissipated · wanton · degenerate · lecherous · lascivious · unchaste · promiscuous · bacchanalian
Pursuit of enjoyment
- sybariticExcessively fond of luxury
- voluptuaryLover of sensory excess
- self-indulgentYielding to one's desires
- sensualOf bodily pleasure
epicurean · luxurious · sensualist · carnal · gratification · indulgent · decadent · extravagant
Morally corrupt, perverse
- sinfulViolating moral law
- wickedEvil or slang-excellent
- vileExtremely unpleasant or bad
- sordidMorally foul or base
corrupt · base · shameful · scandalous · disreputable · dishonorable · unprincipled · unvirtuous
Not domesticated or controlled
- heedlessCareless of consequences
- irresponsibleLacking sense of duty
- uninhibitedFree from self-censorship
- unrestrainedNot held back
unbridled · unconstrained · carefree · improvident · wastrel · spendthrift · squandering · rash
libertine
One lacking moral restraint
- profligateRecklessly extravagant or dissolute
- rakishDashingly unconventional in style
- decadentSelf-indulgent, often corruptly
licentious · dissipated · wanton · degenerate · lecherous · lascivious · unchaste · promiscuous · bacchanalian · orgiastic
pleasure-seeking
Pursuit of enjoyment
- sybariticExcessively fond of luxury
- voluptuaryLover of sensory excess
- self-indulgentYielding to one's desires
sensual · epicurean · luxurious · sensualist · carnal · gratification · indulgent · decadent · extravagant · gluttonous
depraved
Morally corrupt, perverse
sordid · corrupt · base · shameful · scandalous · disreputable · dishonorable · unprincipled · unvirtuous · reprobate
wild
Not domesticated or controlled
- heedlessCareless of consequences
- irresponsibleLacking sense of duty
- uninhibitedFree from self-censorship
unrestrained · unbridled · unconstrained · carefree · improvident · wastrel · spendthrift · squandering · rash · imprudent
- pleasure seekershedonist, hedonists, pleasure seeker, pleasure seekers, pleasure-seeker
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive
dissolutevirtuous
Morally excellent, principled
righteous · moral · upright · principled · ethical
dissoluteascetic
One who renounces indulgence
temperate · self-controlled · restrained · abstemious · disciplined
- clot dissolutionBreakdown of coagulated blood
- mineral dissolutionSolid becoming aqueous solution
- ego dissolutionDisappearance of personal identity
- legal dissolutionFormal termination by authority
- USSR dissolutionCommunist superpower's fragmentation