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libertine
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As a noun, libertine means one who is freethinking in religious matters. As an adjective, it means dissolute, licentious, profligate.
Meanings of libertine
6 meaningsnoun
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.
Older and rare meanings (1)
historicalSomeone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
adjective
Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
Unrestrained by convention or morality
“Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”
“deplorably dissipated and degraded”
“riotous living”
Similar: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, profligate
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).