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
dissipated
simple past tense and past participle of dissipate
dissipated
Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.
• 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.
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
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
