dissipated
/'disipeitid/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Wasteful and self-indulgent, especially in the pursuit of pleasure: Describes a person or lifestyle characterized by excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, often leading to the waste of health, money, or moral standing.
- Scattered or dispersed: (Less common) Describes something that has been scattered or has disappeared.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- He led a dissipated life, spending his nights in casinos and bars.
- The once-great fortune was squandered by the dissipated heir.
- Her talents were dissipated by a lack of focus. (Here, it uses the "scattered" meaning.)
Advanced Usage
- "To be dissipated": To be in a state of moral or physical decline due to overindulgence.
- After years of excess, he was completely dissipated.
- "Dissipated habits": Refers to patterns of behavior involving constant pleasure-seeking and waste.
- He struggled to break free from his dissipated habits.
Variants and Related Words
- Dissipate (verb): To scatter or disperse; to squander or waste (money, energy, etc.) frivolously.
- The fog began to dissipate.
- He dissipated his inheritance on luxury cars.
- Dissipation (noun): The act or process of dissipating; a dissolute, indulgent lifestyle.
- The dissipation of the crowd was slow.
- His youth was marked by dissipation and regret.
Synonyms
- Debauched: Indulging in sensual pleasures to a harmful degree.
- Profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful.
- Dissolute: Lax in morals; licentious.
- Riotous: Unrestrained, involving wild revelry.
Antonyms
- Abstemious: Moderate in eating and drinking.
- Austere: Severe or strict in manner or lifestyle.
- Frugal: Sparing or economical with resources.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- "A dissipated life": A life spent in excessive, often harmful, pleasure-seeking.
- The biography chronicled the artist's tragic and dissipated life.
- "To dissipate one's energies/fortune": To waste one's strength or wealth.
- He warned his son not to dissipate his energies on trivial pursuits.
Adjective
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preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
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led a dissipated life
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a betting man
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a card-playing son of a bitch
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a gambling fool
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sporting gents and their ladies
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unrestrained by convention or morality
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Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
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deplorably dissipated and degraded
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riotous living
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fast women
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