libertine

/ˌlɪbərˈtin/

Other forms: libertines

If you drink a lot, eat a lot, and live a wild and unrestrained life, you might be called a libertine.

A libertine is someone who lives life unencumbered by morals. Although it can be used neutrally, often if someone calls you a libertine, they disapprove of your lack of morality. In the 14th century, a libertine was "a freed slave," from the Latin liber, "free." Starting in the mid-1500s, libertine had a religious and political connotation, referring to a group that opposed Calvinism. By the nineteenth century, the word became strongly associated with immorality and debauchery.

Definitions of libertine

1. adjective

   unrestrained by convention or morality
   synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous

   immoral

   deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
2. noun

   a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
   synonyms: debauchee, rounder

   types:

   gigolo

   a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman

   blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue

   a dissolute man in fashionable society

   ladies' man, lady killer, seducer

   a man who takes advantage of women

   debaucher

   someone who assaults others sexually

   philanderer, womaniser, womanizer

   a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them

   Casanova

   any man noted for his amorous adventures

   Don Juan

   any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman)

   Lothario

   a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women

   lizard, lounge lizard

   a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him

   undoer

   a seducer who ruins a woman

   masher, skirt chaser, wolf, woman chaser

   a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

   type of:

   bad person, malefactor

   a person who does harm to others