SYDFDhaving an immoral way of life, for example drinking too much alcohol or having sex with many people 〔生活〕放荡的,放纵的SYN debauched
Examples from the Corpus
dissolute• Sitting like that, slumped and half-naked, he looked almost dissolute.• Zacharias was a minorpainter when he wasn't living off his mistresses, and reputedly a dissolute.• Yes, he had heard about him and his dissolute bad life; also vaguetumours about the old scandal.• This makes it less likely that investors would encourage a dissoluteborrower to mend its ways by withholdingfinance.• In less-than a week I was employed in the dissolutefield of computers.• I can not see her as an innocentvictim of a nasty and dissolutehippie.• It is Peer Gynt, who has lived a dissolute life.• Sadie returns to Seattle from a dissolute road journey.
Origindissolute
(1300-1400)Latindissolutus, past participle of dissolvere; → DISSOLVE