DISSIPATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissipated mean? 

• DISSIPATED (adjective)
  The adjective DISSIPATED has 2 senses:

1. unrestrained by convention or morality

2. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

  Familiarity information: DISSIPATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSIPATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrestrained by convention or morality

Synonyms:

debauched; degenerate; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; fast; libertine; profligate; riotous

Context example:

fast women

Similar:

immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

Synonyms:

betting; card-playing; dissipated; sporting

Context example:

sporting gents and their ladies

Similar:

indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)

 Context examples 

She stirred herself, put back the curtain, and I saw her face, pale, wasted, but quite composed: she looked so little changed that my fear was instantly dissipated.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As the sunlight-blocking aerosols from Mount Pinatubo dissipated in the simulations, sea levels began to slowly rebound to pre-eruption levels.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

It reminded her of their first forlorn tete-a-tete, on the evening of Mrs. Weston's wedding-day; but Mr. Knightley had walked in then, soon after tea, and dissipated every melancholy fancy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

One explanation is that the disk dissipated before the planet could bulk up further.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

The light and warmth and the Count's courteous welcome seemed to have dissipated all my doubts and fears.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work—one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The glimmering vision was rent asunder and dissipated by Arthur, who, all evening, had been trying to draw his wild man out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)