Libertine

['lɪbətiːn;-tɪn;-taɪn] or ['lɪbɚtin]

Definition

(noun.) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained.

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Definition

(n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

(n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.

(n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.

(n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.

(n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.

(n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Rake, debauchee, voluptuary, profligate, dissolute man, man of pleasure.

a. Licentious, dissolute, of lax morals.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Rake, debauchee

ANT:Ascetic, anchorite, recluse, hermit, puritan, saint

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