An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DISSOLUTE
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
Etymology
Adjective
dissolute (comparative more dissolute, superlative most dissolute)
Unrestrained by morality.
Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
Synonyms
• debauched, dissipated, hedonic, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, profligate, wanton
Anagrams
• outslides, slideouts, solitudes
Source: Wiktionary
Dis"so*lute, a. Etym: [L. dissolutus, p. p. of dissolvere: cf. F. dissolu. See Dissolve.]
1. With nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.
Syn.
– Uncurbed; unbridled; disorderly; unrestrained; reckless; wild; wanton; vicious; lax; licentious; lewd;
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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