Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Dissolute, dissipated: Describes a person who leads a morally unrestrained life, often characterized by excessive pursuit of pleasure, a lack of discipline, and indifference to conventional rules or ethics.
   • Unrestrained, libertine: Refers to a free-spirited or licentious attitude that disregards normal social or moral boundaries.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Anh ta sống một cuộc đời phóng lãng. (He lives a dissolute life.)
  • Con người phóng lãng, chỉ thích ăn chơi. (A dissolute man who is only after sensual pleasures.)
  • Tính cách phóng lãng của anh ấy khiến gia đình lo lắng. (His unrestrained character worries his family.)

Advanced Usage

• The term often carries a negative moral judgment, implying criticism of someone's hedonistic and irresponsible lifestyle. It is more severe than simply being "free-spirited."

Variants and Related Words

• Phóng túng (adj): Uninhibited, unrestrained. Often used similarly but can sometimes have a slightly less morally negative connotation than "phóng lãng."
  • Phong cách sống phóng túng. (An uninhibited lifestyle.)

Synonyms

• Dissolute: Lax in morals, licentious.
• Debauched: Indulging in sensual pleasures to a degrading degree.
• Libertine: A person who is morally unrestrained, especially in sexual conduct.
• Profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful.

Related Idioms

• While "phóng lãng" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, the behavior it describes is central to phrases like:
  • Ăn chơi phóng lãng: To live a life of debauchery and dissipation.

    • Thanh niên đó bị cuốn vào lối sống ăn chơi phóng lãng. (That young man got swept into a lifestyle of debauchery.)

1. Loose, dissipated, dissolute
   • Con người phóng lãng, chỉ thích ăn chơi
     A dissolute man who is only after sensual pleasures