libertine
noun
[ ˈlɪbətiːn ]
• a person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.
• "his image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth"
Similar:
philanderer,
ladies' man,
playboy,
rake,
roué,
loose-liver,
Don Juan,
Lothario,
Casanova,
Romeo,
lecher,
seducer,
womanizer,
adulterer,
debauchee,
sensualist,
voluptuary,
hedonist,
profligate,
wanton,
reprobate,
degenerate,
stud,
player,
playa,
skirt-chaser,
ladykiller,
lech,
wolf,
rip,
blood,
gay dog,
fornicator,
• a freethinker in matters of religion.
libertine
adjective
• characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures.
• "his more libertine impulses"
Similar:
licentious,
lustful,
libidinous,
lecherous,
lascivious,
lubricious,
dissolute,
dissipated,
debauched,
immoral,
wanton,
shameless,
degenerate,
depraved,
debased,
profligate,
promiscuous,
unchaste,
lewd,
prurient,
salacious,
indecent,
immodest,
impure,
carnal,
intemperate,
abandoned,
unrestrained,
unprincipled,
reprobate,
rakish,
decadent,
sensual,
voluptuary,
hedonistic,
loose,
fast,
goatish,
randy,
horny,
raunchy,
concupiscent,
lickerish,
• freethinking.
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a freed slave or the son of one): from Latin libertinus ‘freedman’, from liber ‘free’. In the mid 16th century, imitating French libertin, the term denoted a member of any of various antinomian sects in France; hence libertine (sense 2 of the noun).
