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adjective
- 1. (of a person or way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures: "dissipated behaviour"
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to (cause to) gradually disappear or waste: The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere. His anger dissipated as the situation became clear. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Wasting. boondoggle. dissipation. down the drain idiom. flabbily. fritter. piss. prodigality. prodigally. profligacy. profligate. spendthrift.
1. : to break up and scatter or vanish. The clouds dissipated and the sun came out. The team's early momentum has dissipated. 2. : to be extravagant or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure. especially : to drink to excess. his extended dissipating of the night before. dissipater noun. Synonyms. clear out. disband.
spending too much time enjoying physical pleasures and harmful activities such as drinking a lot of alcohol: He recalled his dissipated youth spent in nightclubs and bars. Synonyms. debauched. degenerate formal disapproving. dissolute literary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Morally wrong and evil. abhorrently. amorality. anomie.
to (cause to) gradually disappear or waste: The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere. His anger dissipated as the situation became clear. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Wasting. boondoggle. dissipation. down the drain idiom. flabbily. fritter. piss. prodigality. prodigally. profligacy. profligate. spendthrift.
v.tr. 1. a. To break apart or attenuate to the point of disappearing: The wind finally dissipated the smoke. See Synonyms at scatter. b. To drive away; cause to vanish: a discovery that dissipated his doubts. 2. a. To spend or expend intemperately or wastefully; squander: dissipated his fortune in casinos. b.
: given to or marked by dissipation : dissolute. dissipatedly adverb. dissipatedness noun. Synonyms. corrupt. debased. debauched. decadent. degenerate. degraded. demoralized. depraved. dissolute. jackleg. libertine. loose. perverse. perverted. rakehelly. rakish. reprobate. sick. unclean. unwholesome. warped. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus
When someone dissipates money, time, or effort, they waste it in a foolish way. [formal] He is dissipating his time and energy on too many different things. [VERB noun] Her father had dissipated her inheritance. [VERB noun] Synonyms: squander, spend, waste, consume More Synonyms of dissipate.
IPA guide. Other forms: dissipated; dissipating; dissipates. To dissipate is to disperse or fade away — as a bad smell will dissipate (usually) if you wait long enough. Dissipate can also mean “spend or use wastefully.”.
Definitions of 'dissipate'. 1. When something dissipates or when you dissipate it, it becomes less or becomes less strong until it disappears or goes away completely. [formal] [...] 2. When someone dissipates money, time, or effort, they waste it in a foolish way. [formal] [...] More.
Definition of dissipated adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
