libertine
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome
Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
One who is freethinking in religious matters.
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving…
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
- So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.
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Dissolute, licentious, profligate
Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
The neighborhood
- synonymadulterer
- synonymbed-hopper
- synonymcarpetmonger
- synonymchamberer
- synonymdebauchee
- synonymdebaucher
- synonymfornicator
- synonymgallant
- synonymlecher
- synonymlewdster
- synonymlibertine
- synonymhood rat
- antonymcelibate
- antonymcelibatist
- antonymmonogamist
- antonymvirgin
- neighbordrunkard
- neighborglutton
- neighborpleasure
- neighborprostitute
- neighborperson
- neighborsensualist
- neighborcopulator
- neighborlibidinist
- neighborpromiscuous man
- neighborpromiscuous woman
- neighborliberate
- neighborliberal
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA