libertine
Plural: libertines
Noun
- a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
- 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 sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
Adjective Satellite
- unrestrained by convention or morality
Adj
- Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
debauched, debauchee, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous, rounder, adulterer, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debaucher, fornicator, gallant, hood rat, lecher, lewdster, libertine, philanderer, player, rake, rantipole, rizzler, roué, seducer, voluptuary, wanton
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
libertine: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlibertine: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
libertine: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary