Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Morally corrupt or dissolute: Describes a person or their behavior as excessively indulgent in sensual pleasures, especially those considered immoral or harmful, showing a lack of restraint and disregard for conventional standards of morality.
   • Degraded through excessive indulgence: Implies a state of decline or corruption resulting from a life of extreme hedonism and vice.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The novel portrays a debauched nobleman who spends his fortune on wine and gambling.
  • After years of debauched living, his health was completely ruined.
  • The historian described the emperor's court as notoriously debauched.

Advanced Usage

• "debauched lifestyle": A way of life characterized by excessive indulgence in physical pleasures and vices.
  • He abandoned his debauched lifestyle after a profound personal crisis.
• "debauched revelry": Wild, unrestrained, and immoral merrymaking or celebration.
  • The tales spoke of ancient festivals that descended into debauched revelry.

Variants and Related Words

• Debauchery (noun): Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; extreme intemperance.
  • The party was an orgy of sheer debauchery.
• Debauch (verb, formal/literary): To corrupt morally; to seduce from virtue or excellence.
  • The power and wealth of the city seemed to debauch its once-honorable leaders.

Synonyms

• Dissolute: Lax in morals; licentious.
• Depraved: Morally corrupt; perverted.
• Degenerate: Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
• Profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources; licentious; dissolute.
• Rakish: Dashingly stylish and unconventional, often with connotations of slight moral disrepute.

Antonyms

• Virtuous: Having or showing high moral standards.
• Upright: Strictly honorable or honest.
• Ascetic: Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
• Abstemious: Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "A life of debauchery": A common phrase describing a sustained period of immoral and excessive indulgence.
  • The biography detailed the rock star's life of debauchery in the 1970s.
• "To lead someone into debauchery": To corrupt someone or lead them into a dissolute lifestyle.
  • He was accused of leading the young prince into debauchery.

Adjective

1. unrestrained by convention or morality
   • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
   • deplorably dissipated and degraded
   • riotous living
   • fast women