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Definition of Dissipated
1. Adjective. Unrestrained by convention or morality. "Fast women"
Similar to: Immoral
Derivative terms: Degenerate, Dissoluteness, Libertine, Profligate, Riot
2. Adjective. Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance. "Sporting gents and their ladies"
Definition of Dissipated
1. a. Squandered; scattered.
Definition of Dissipated
1. Verb. (past of dissipate) ¹
2. Adjective. to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures ¹
3. Adjective. Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dissipated
1. dissipate [v] - See also: dissipate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissipated
Literary usage of Dissipated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley (1836)
"He has still a little flock, who do, in fact, " attend upon him without distraction :"
who, cleaving to him with full purpose, are not dissipated from him, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(167) While the public forces of the state were dissipated in private quarrels,
the defenceless provinces lay exposed to every invader. ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"In 1756 he began to meditate on the perplexing slowness withwhich ice melts, and
water is dissipated in boiling. He divined the cause in 1757, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"... identify Sir Mathew's son with the dissipated poet. by a bishop, but since
the Reformation the practice ap. ..."
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