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LIBERTINE
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”
libertine, debauchee, rounder
(noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
libertine (plural libertines)
(historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
Etymology 2
Noun
libertine (plural libertines)
One who is freethinking in religious matters.
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
Synonyms
• See also libertine
Adjective
libertine (comparative more libertine, superlative most libertine)
Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
Anagrams
• berlinite
Source: Wiktionary
Lib"er*tine, n. Etym: [L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.)
Definition: A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
Definition: One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
3. One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.
4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]
Lib"er*tine, a. Etym: [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ]
1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.] You are too much libertine. Beau. & Fl.
2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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