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单词 dissolute
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Definition of dissolute in English:

dissolute

adjective ˈdɪsəluːtˈdɪsəˌlut
  • (of a person or a way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures.

    unfortunately, his heir was feckless and dissolute
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What I discovered in Bruce Hindmarsh's learned biography was that Newton became a convert not because of his disgust for the slave trade, but because of his horror at the dissolute life he had led.
    • But the dissolute West presents another - and who knows?
    • Some see this electric music as a dissolute phase and some perceive it as tired, evidence of an aging talent attempting to be contemporary.
    • They believe this country is the only hope of the world and they feel that this country is becoming more and more powerful on the one hand, but on the other, is rapidly growing more dissolute.
    • Although many British journalists of my acquaintance verge on the dissolute - sloppy drunks trying to cadge a free meal - Michael, an American who was shortly to become an English legend, outdid them all.
    • It seems to me bad and dissolute things happen late at night under the cover of darkness.
    • He makes his way with difficulty through the world, in part because he also is dissolute and perennially poor.
    • He has a hard time making the cliché metamorphosis from dissolute wanderer to committed hero come across, but that is mostly due to problems in the script's pacing.
    • Why did I associate with such a dissolute bunch?
    • He is losing public sympathy, not out of revulsion over his dissolute private life, but rather as a result of allegations that he abused his office to secure perks for his lovers, including a visa for his mistress's nanny.
    • The action begins with a group of dissolute rich folks chatting in some tropical hideaway while oppressed throngs gather ominously at the gates.
    • The women and girls who prostitute themselves to these wretches are dissolute creatures.
    • All these ghouls had lived dissolute lives and we were now bearing witness to their sentence in this watery purgatory.
    • I think this album is tremendous in several places, in fact; a messy, dissolute record that pulls off the stunt of being musically emotionally open while lyrically open to interpretation.
    • In the book, young architect Guy Haines accidentally meets Charles Anthony Bruno, a dissolute, alcoholic playboy, when they wind up seated together on a cross-country train journey.
    • But I truly believe that Vegas serves as a refuge for those not permitted to be dissolute in their native environments.
    • He was careless, dissolute, and ambitious; - idle, or doing mischief.
    • Countless examples could be cited - including earlier works by Regnault himself - that predict the dissolute male figure and white-skinned women.
    • But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard.
    • Drunk and dissolute, he's wasting his life someplace when he gets called in to investigate a 1500 year old church in a part of Africa that didn't have Christianity 1500 years ago.
    Synonyms
    dissipated, debauched, decadent, intemperate, profligate, abandoned, self-indulgent, rakish, louche, licentious, promiscuous, lecherous, libertine, wanton, lustful, libidinous, lewd, unchaste, loose
    wild, unrestrained, fast-living, depraved, degenerate, corrupt, sinful, immoral, impure
    drunken

Derivatives

  • dissolutely

  • adverbˈdɪsəluːtliˈdɪsəˌlutli
    • Abandoned by her husband, who is tired of living in his wife's shadow, Malak is courted by Lamei, a dissolutely handsome con-man posing as a psychologist who wants to break into film.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Others might grow poor squandering resources by living dissolutely.
      • Even a proposal couldn't make his relationship work and he quit dissolutely in the erudition that there was too much love and too much hate.
      • I dissolutely admit that veracious men with mediocre vocations make great friends but it's those carnivorous corporate men with hefty expense accounts that somehow get my hormones raging.
      • Their suffering is generally caused by adults: a parent has died, or run off, or otherwise acted irresponsibly, drunkenly, selfishly, dissolutely.
  • dissoluteness

  • nounˈdɪsəluːtnəsˈdɪsəˌlutnəs
    • It proves that Bieito is much more than a Spanish shock-merchant: he has an awareness of the pain of love and the dissoluteness of pleasure that makes him the modern theatre's equivalent of Buñuel.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The slave states, were marked by ‘the unequal distribution of property, the toleration of slavery, the ignorance and poverty of the lower classes,’ and a ‘dissoluteness of manners.’
      • In such circumstances, it was only to be expected that Christ College in the nineteenth century had a certain reputation for dissoluteness among its staff.
      • These radicals despise the West for what they consider the immorality, depravity, and dissoluteness of its mass culture.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin dissolutus 'disconnected, loose', from the verb dissolvere (see dissolve).

  • solve from Late Middle English:

    The early senses of solve were ‘loosen, dissolve, untie’; the source is Latin solvere ‘loosen, unfasten’. Other words sharing this base are late Middle English soluble and solution, and mid 17th century solvent. From the same Latin root come absolve (Late Middle English) ‘loosen from’; dissolve (Late Middle English) ‘loosen apart’; dissolute (Late Middle English) of loose morals; and resolve (Late Middle English) ‘thoroughly loosen’.

 
 

Definition of dissolute in US English:

dissolute

adjectiveˈdɪsəˌlutˈdisəˌlo͞ot
  • Lax in morals; licentious.

    a dissolute, drunken, disreputable rogue
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It seems to me bad and dissolute things happen late at night under the cover of darkness.
    • He makes his way with difficulty through the world, in part because he also is dissolute and perennially poor.
    • Drunk and dissolute, he's wasting his life someplace when he gets called in to investigate a 1500 year old church in a part of Africa that didn't have Christianity 1500 years ago.
    • Countless examples could be cited - including earlier works by Regnault himself - that predict the dissolute male figure and white-skinned women.
    • Although many British journalists of my acquaintance verge on the dissolute - sloppy drunks trying to cadge a free meal - Michael, an American who was shortly to become an English legend, outdid them all.
    • But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard.
    • They believe this country is the only hope of the world and they feel that this country is becoming more and more powerful on the one hand, but on the other, is rapidly growing more dissolute.
    • The women and girls who prostitute themselves to these wretches are dissolute creatures.
    • He was careless, dissolute, and ambitious; - idle, or doing mischief.
    • I think this album is tremendous in several places, in fact; a messy, dissolute record that pulls off the stunt of being musically emotionally open while lyrically open to interpretation.
    • All these ghouls had lived dissolute lives and we were now bearing witness to their sentence in this watery purgatory.
    • He has a hard time making the cliché metamorphosis from dissolute wanderer to committed hero come across, but that is mostly due to problems in the script's pacing.
    • Why did I associate with such a dissolute bunch?
    • But I truly believe that Vegas serves as a refuge for those not permitted to be dissolute in their native environments.
    • What I discovered in Bruce Hindmarsh's learned biography was that Newton became a convert not because of his disgust for the slave trade, but because of his horror at the dissolute life he had led.
    • Some see this electric music as a dissolute phase and some perceive it as tired, evidence of an aging talent attempting to be contemporary.
    • But the dissolute West presents another - and who knows?
    • The action begins with a group of dissolute rich folks chatting in some tropical hideaway while oppressed throngs gather ominously at the gates.
    • He is losing public sympathy, not out of revulsion over his dissolute private life, but rather as a result of allegations that he abused his office to secure perks for his lovers, including a visa for his mistress's nanny.
    • In the book, young architect Guy Haines accidentally meets Charles Anthony Bruno, a dissolute, alcoholic playboy, when they wind up seated together on a cross-country train journey.
    Synonyms
    dissipated, debauched, decadent, intemperate, profligate, abandoned, self-indulgent, rakish, louche, licentious, promiscuous, lecherous, libertine, wanton, lustful, libidinous, lewd, unchaste, loose

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin dissolutus ‘disconnected, loose’, from the verb dissolvere (see dissolve).

 
 
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