Word Meanings - RAKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAKISH)

• Licentious
• Voluptuous
• dissolute
• rakish
• debauched
• self-indulgent
• lax
• profligate
• loose
• unbridled

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAKISH)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to RAKISH)

• RAKISH
  Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• DEBAUCHNESS
  Debauchedness.
• DEBAUCH
  To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• PROFLIGATENESS
  The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
• DEBAUCHEDNESS
  The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• PROFLIGATELY
  In a profligate manner.
• DISSOLUTENESS
  State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.
• UNBRIDLE
  To free from the bridle; to set loose.
• VOLUPTUOUS
  pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Gr. velle 1. Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual. Music arose with
• PROFLIGATE
  or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• DEBAUCHEDLY
  In a profligate manner.
• FASTENING
  Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
  A tetrahexahedron.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• REFASTEN
  To fasten again.