characterized by loose moral standards, as in: The younger son led a dissolute lifestyle before he returned home to his family
disapproval Someone who is dissolute does not care at all about morals and lives in a way that is considered to be wicked and immoral. = degenerate. having an immoral way of life, for example drinking too much alcohol or having sex with many people (dissolutus, past participle of dissolvere; DISSOLVE)
is one that runs loose, not restrained by laws or any other bonds (Latin, dissolvo, like horses unharnessed )
loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched
unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"