单词 | libertine |
释义 | libertine /lib"euhr teen', -tin/, n. 1. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, esp. a dissolute man; a profligate; rake. 2. a freethinker in religious matters. 3. a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome. adj. 4. free of moral, esp. sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious. 5. freethinking in religious matters. 6. Archaic. unrestrained; uncontrolled. [1350-1400; ME libertyn < L libertinus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (n.), equiv. to libert(us) freedman (appar. by reanalysis of liber-tas LIBERTY as libert-as) + -inus -INE1] Syn. 1. roué, debauchee, lecher, sensualist. 4. amoral, sensual, lascivious, lewd. Ant. 1. prude. |
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