| 单词 | dissolute |
| 释义 | dissolute (once / 2620 pages) adj The adjective dissolute means unrestrained. If you're a dissolute person, you indulge in gambling, drugs, and drinking and don't care if others disapprove. If your mother tells you you're dissolute, she's not trying to be kind. Some kinds of unrestrained behavior are good, like if you're unrestrained by fear, and do something very brave. But someone who is dissolute not only goes against the grain of normal behavior, but is wasteful and offensive — over the limit. If you drop out of school, party all the time, and waste your life, you've chosen a dissolute lifestyle. WORD FAMILYdissolute: dissolutely, dissoluteness, dissolutest USAGE EXAMPLESA dissolute, flaky, noisy persona may have made Amy famous, but underneath are fierce loyalty and enviable discipline, conveyed in a librarian’s hush. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) Her Lee is dissolute, unsociable, mildly monstrous and somehow deeply sympathetic. New York Times(Nov 07, 2016) This play introduces Shakespeare's greatest comedic character, the dissolute knight Sir John Falstaff. Slate(Nov 07, 2016) adj unrestrained by convention or morality Syn debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous immoral deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong |
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