libertine in English dictionary

  • libertine

    Meanings and definitions of "libertine"

    • (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
    • One who is freethinking in religious matters.
    • Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
    • Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
    • adjective
      Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
    • noun
      One who is freethinking in religious matters.
    • noun
      Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
    • noun
      (historical)
      Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
    • Displaying the effect of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure.
    • adjective
      unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
    • noun
      a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

    Synonyms of "libertine" in English dictionary

    debauchee, debauched, degraded are the top synonyms of "libertine" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of libertine

    • libertine ( plural  libertines)
    • libertine ( comparative more libertine, superlative most libertine)
    • libertine (comparative more libertine, superlative most libertine)
    • libertine (plural libertines)
  • Libertine

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