dissipated

/'disipeitid/

Thân thiện

He led a dissipated life of late-night card games and parties.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
   • led a dissipated life
   • a betting man
   • a card-playing son of a bitch
   • a gambling fool
   • sporting gents and their ladies
2. unrestrained by convention or morality
   • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
   • deplorably dissipated and degraded
   • riotous living
   • fast women

Từ đồng nghĩa

• betting
• card-playing
• sporting
• debauched
• degenerate
• degraded
• dissolute
• libertine
• profligate
• riotous
• fast