/lib"euhr teen', -tin/ , n.
1. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, esp. a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
2. a freethinker in religious matters.
3. a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.
adj.
4. free of moral, esp. sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious.
5. freethinking in religious matters.
6. Archaic. unrestrained; uncontrolled.
[ 1350-1400; ME libertyn libertinus of a freedman (adj.), freedman (n.), equiv. to libert ( us ) freedman (appar. by reanalysis of liber-tas LIBERTY as libert-as ) + -inus -INE 1 ]
Syn. 1. roué, debauchee, lecher, sensualist. 4. amoral, sensual, lascivious, lewd.
Ant. 1. prude.