dissipatedadj.
1. † b. Devoid of concentration.
a. Dispersed, scattered, dispelled, wasted, frittered away.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective]
disperse1393
distract1398
scattereda1425
skailed1488
dispersed1526
dissipate1606
dissipated1610
straggled1641
disjected1647
respersed1649
disparpled1652
disseminated1662
shattered1687
sundered1796
decentralized1851
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > driven away in all directions
scattereda1425
forscattered1430
sparpled1432
skailed1488
dispersed1526
disparkled1529
severed1581
flittered1582
sparsed1585
discattered1595
disjected1647
squandered1647
dissipateda1711
dissipate1715
the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] > characterized or marked by squandering > squandered
dissipated1738
dissipate1765
squandered1801
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Isa. xxxiii. 8 The wayes are dissipated, the passenger by the path hath ceased.
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 521 So did they think a resurrection of corrupted, dissolved, and dissipated bodies, to be..impossible.
1683 J. Howe Let. to Lady Russell in H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) viii. 201 To recollect ourselves, and recover our dissipated spirits.
a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 387 At the great Day of all the Just, You shall collect the dissipated Dust.
1738 S. Johnson London 20 Of dissipated wealth the small remains.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xviii. 195 Adeline..had now recollected her dissipated thoughts.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 54 Freedom of thinking was only an empty watchword, the name for a dissipated fashion.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [adjective] > distracted
distract1435
bestraughta1547
amused1579
bestract1581
distracteda1634
bestraughteda1650
distrait1748
dissipated1749
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1298 Many young people are so light, so dissipated, and so incurious, that they can hardly be said to see what they see.
2. Given to or characterized by dissipation; dissolute.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective]
wild13..
desolatec1386
unthrifty1388
riotousc1405
resolute?a1475
palliard1484
dissolutea1513
royetous1526
sluttishc1555
rakehell1556
dissolutious1560
rakehelly1579
hell-raking1593
sportive1597
low1599
lavish1600
rakellyc1600
profligate1627
profligated1652
rantipole1660
abandoned1690
raking1696
rakish1696
dissipated1744
dissipating1818
outward1875
1744 S. Johnson Acct. Life R. Savage 181 An irregular and dissipated Manner of Life had made him the Slave of every Passion.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 376 Who seeks A social, not a dissipated life.
1788 J. Wesley Serm. lxxix, Dissipation King Charles the second, one of the most dissipated mortals that ever breathed.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. x. 167 A dissipated young man.
1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art I. 293 Augustine passed his restless youth in dissipated pleasures, and desultory studies.
1865 H. Alford in Life, Jrnls. & Lett. (1873) x. 384 We are making out a dissipated week at the Macnaughten's.
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