Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate.

The whole force of the term dissipated [from the Latin for "spend or use up wastefully of foolishly"] lies in the Protestant idea that one can somehow glorify God by accumulating capital. The idler prefers that part of the Bible in which Jesus asks us to consider the lilies, which toileth not, yet which are more beautiful than Solomon in all his splendor. Remember, too, that the moral of the parable of the "Prodigal Son" is that you aren't superior just because you keep your nose to the grind-stone. See: SYBARITE.

unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

Squandered; scattered.

irreversibly lost