DISSIPATED
dissipated, betting, card-playing, sporting
(adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; “led a dissipated life”; “a betting man”; “a card-playing son of a bitch”; “a gambling fool”; “sporting gents and their ladies”
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality; “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”; “deplorably dissipated and degraded”; “riotous living”; “fast women”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
dissipated
simple past tense and past participle of dissipate
Adjective
dissipated
Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.
Synonyms
• dissolute
• intemperate
Source: Wiktionary
Dis"si*pa`ted, a.
1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson.
2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure;
dissolute; intemperate.
A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
DISSIPATE
Dis"si*pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dissipating.] Etym: [L. dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an
obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw.]
1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used
esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or
restored.
Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden.
I soon dissipated his fears. Cook.
The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual
energy. Hazlitt.
2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. Bp. Burnet.
Syn.
– To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume;
lavish.
Dis"si*pate, v. i.
1. To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter;
to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates
before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.
2. To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of
pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition