Rakish vs Dissipated - What's the difference?
rakish | dissipated | Synonyms |
dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
(dated) like a rake; dissolute; profligate
* Macaulay
(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
Rakish is a synonym of dissipated.
As adjectives the difference between rakish and dissipated
is that rakish is dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance while dissipated is to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures.As a verb dissipated is
(dissipate).rakish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ... the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood." (Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007)
- The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.