adj
Meaning 1
Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
libertine
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/
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US: /ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin/
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noun
Meaning 2
Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
One who is freethinking in religious matters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 4
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
unrestrained by convention or morality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
- deplorably dissipated and degraded
- riotous living
- fast women
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, profligate, riotous, fast
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: debauchee, rounder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bad person
Narrower terms: adulterer, fornicator, gigolo, rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue, seducer, ladies' man, lady killer, swinger, tramp, violator, debaucher, ravisher, womanizer, womaniser, philanderer
History
Etymology
From French libertin.
From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: разпуснат (razpusnat) — loose in morals
- Bulgarian: безнравствен (beznravstven) — loose in morals
- Esperanto: cinika — loose in morals
- Italian: libertino — loose in morals
- Portuguese: libertino — loose in morals
- Bulgarian: свободомислещ (svobodomislešt) — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Czech: volnomyšlenkář — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Czech: libertin — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Dutch: vrijdenker — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Dutch: libertijn — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Italian: libertino — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Italian: antidogmatico — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Italian: liberale — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Polish: libertyn — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Romanian: libertin — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Swedish: fritänkare — one who is freethinking in religious matters
- Bulgarian: развратник (razvratnik) — someone loose in morals
- Catalan: calavera — someone loose in morals
- Czech: zhýralec — someone loose in morals
- Czech: nemrava — someone loose in morals
- Czech: zpustlík — someone loose in morals
- Italian: libertino — someone loose in morals
- Polish: libertyn — someone loose in morals
- Portuguese: libertino — someone loose in morals
- Russian: распу́тник (raspútnik) — someone loose in morals
- Russian: развра́тник (razvrátnik) — someone loose in morals
- Spanish: libertino — someone loose in morals
- Spanish: crápula — someone loose in morals
- Spanish: disoluto — someone loose in morals
- Spanish: calavera — someone loose in morals
- Swedish: vällusting — someone loose in morals
- Swedish: libertin — someone loose in morals
- Swedish: hedonist — someone loose in morals
- Vietnamese: phóng đãng — someone loose in morals
- Welsh: libertiniad — someone loose in morals