Dissipated vs Dispersed - What's the difference?
dissipated | dispersed |
(dissipate)
to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures
* James dissipated his savings with all of his addictions.
Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure
(disperse)
(intransitive) To scatter in different directions
* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7
* Cowper
(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate
(intransitive) To disseminate
(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract
(intransitive) To distribute throughout
As verbs the difference between dissipated and dispersed
is that dissipated is (dissipate) while dispersed is (disperse).As an adjective dissipated
is to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures.dissipated
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* dissolute * intemperatedispersed
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- The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
- The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
- Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .