Libertine

Noun

 * 1)  Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
 * 2) One who is freethinking in religious matters.
 * 3) Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
 * 4) * 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 123,
 * So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:libertine

Related terms

 * liberate
 * liberal
 * liberty

Adjective

 * 1) Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

Thesaurus
Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Paphian, adulterer, amoral, bestial, broad-minded, carnal, debauched, debauchee, debaucher, decadent, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dirty old man, dissolute, fast, filthy, fornicator, free lance, free spirit, free trader, freethinker, freethinking, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, goatish, heartbreaker, hircine, horny, immoral, incontinent, independent, individualist, isolationist, lady-killer, lascivious, latitudinarian, lecher, lecherous, lewd, liberal, libertarian, libidinous, licentious, lover-boy, lubricious, lubricous, lustful, masher, mugwump, neutral, nonpartisan, old goat, open-minded, philander, philanderer, philandering, profligate, prurient, rake, rakehell, rakish, randy, reprobate, rip, roue, rounder, rugged individualist, ruttish, salacious, satyric, satyrical, seducer, skirt chaser, swinger, third force, third world, tolerant, unbigoted, walking phallus, wanton, whoremonger, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer

Etymology
< libertinus: < libertus: < liber:; see liberal, liberate.

Related terms

 * libertinism