libertine

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/ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/ English

Definitions

noun

Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.

noun

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.

adjective

Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

Related words

Synonyms

fast profligate debauchee debauched dissipated dissolute degenerate degraded riotous immoral dissolute person thelemite rake roue novel legionary

Associated

libertines crass eroticism samson atheist libretto farmer erotic outlook eighteenth rochester

Rhymes

keen obscene mean byzantine careen lean demean preen glean contravene

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