libertine (redirected from Libertines)

lib·er·tine  (lbr-tn)

n.

1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person.

2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker.

adj.

Morally unrestrained; dissolute.

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[Middle English, freedman, from Latin lbertnus, from lbertus, from lber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.]

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libertine [lib-er-teen]

Noun

a person who is promiscuous and unscrupulous

Adjective

promiscuous and unscrupulous [Latin libertus freed]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	libertine - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained debauchee, rounder adulterer, fornicator - someone who commits adultery or fornication bad person - a person who does harm to others gigolo - a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue, blood - a dissolute man in fashionable society ladies' man, lady killer, seducer - a man who takes advantage of women swinger, tramp - a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex debaucher, ravisher, violator - someone who assaults others sexually philanderer, womaniser, womanizer - a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
Adj.	1.	libertine - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, profligate, riotous, fast immoral - deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong