Debauched

Quick meaning: Debauched is an adjective meaning Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.

Meaning

Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.

More Meanings

1. simple past and past participle of debauch

Example Sentences

He was a man made for the exteremes of life; from the most debauched of men he had become the most ascetic.

When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.

Word Forms

• deboist

Synonyms for debauched

Depending on context, synonyms include degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dissipated, dissolute, profligate, riotous, degenerate, degraded.

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