lib·er·tine (l b  r-t n )n. 1. One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person. 2. One who defies established religious precepts; a freethinker. adj. Morally unrestrained; dissolute. [Middle English, freedman, from Latin l  bertnus, from lbertus, from lber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.] |
libertine [ˈlɪbəˌtiːn -ˌtaɪn]
n
a morally dissolute person
adj
morally dissolute
[C14 (in the sense: freedman, dissolute person): from Latin lībertīnus freedman, from lībertus freed, from līber free]
libertinage , libertinism n
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| Noun | 1. | libertine - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained 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 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" immoral - deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong |
libertine
noun
reprobate, seducer, profligate, womanizer, rake, swinger (slang), lecher, roué, sensualist, voluptuary, debauchee, lech or letch (informal), loose liver a self-confessed coward, libertine and scoundrel
adjective
promiscuous, degenerate, immoral, decadent, abandoned, corrupt, voluptuous, depraved, wanton, profligate, debauched, dissolute, rakish, reprobate, licentious He was free to explore a libertine lifestyle.
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