spec. Giving way to sexual passion; also, more widely, licentious, dissolute, loose.

Destitute of good quality, evil, abandoned. (Sometimes apparently confounded with dissolute.) Obsolete.

Loose or lax in respect of conduct, morals, or virtue; unchaste, wanton, profligate.

Of a person. Given to excessive revelry or unruliness; wanton or dissolute; (also) prodigal, extravagant. Now rare.

figurative. Morally lax, dissolute. Obsolete. rare.

Scoundrelly, rascally; dissolute. Obsolete.

That has thrown off the restraints of morality and virtue; lax in morals, loose-living; licentious, profligate, debauched. (Of persons, their…

Wild, riotous; extravagant.

Of a person or group: low, despicable, or immoral. Obsolete.

Of a person or (occasionally) an animal: = rakehelly, adj. 1.

Inclined to dissoluteness.

Of a person: having the character, appearance, or manner of a rakehell.

Wild, dissolute; rakehelly, hell-raising.

Of the nature of, relating to, or characterized by (esp. amorous) pleasure, or the pursuit of this; wanton, dissipated. Now rare.

With depreciative connotation. Of a woman: (regarded as) morally or socially degraded, or of dubious morality or virtue; dissolute, licentious.

Of conduct or disposition: Unrestrained, impetuous; loose, wild, licentious. Obsolete.

= rakehelly, adj.

Given to or characterized by licentiousness; debauched.

= profligate, adj. 2.

Characteristic of or befitting a rantipole; wild, disorderly, rakish, boisterous; (also) crazy, wildly irrational or eccentric.

Chiefly attributive (without to). Uninhibited, unconstrained; devoted to an influence, passion, etc., esp. one which is evil or immoral; profligate.

Dissolute, debauched.

Of a person: having the character, appearance, or manner of a rake.

Given to or characterized by dissipation; dissolute.

English regional (northern). Wild or irregular in conduct; dissipated.