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放蕩生活 (ほうとうせいかつ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

放ほう蕩とう生せい活かつ

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Meanings

1

dissipated life; fast living; riotous living

Refers to a lifestyle of excessive drinking, gambling, or other self-indulgent behavior, often implying moral decay or wastefulness.

彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、放ほう蕩とう生せい活かつを送おくっていた。
He led a dissipated life when he was young.

放ほう蕩とう生せい活かつの末すえに財ざい産さんを失うしなった。

He lost his fortune after a life of fast living.

Kanji

放set free, release, fire
蕩melt, be charmed, captivated
生life, genuine, birth
活lively, resuscitation, being helped

Related words

自じ堕だ落らく
自堕落 describes a person's character as self-indulgent and lazy, while 放蕩生活 refers specifically to the lifestyle itself.
浪ろう費ひ
浪費 means wastefulness in general, often of money or resources, but does not necessarily imply the moral dissolution of 放蕩生活.

Built from

放ほう蕩とう+生せい活かつ

Etymology

Compound of 放蕩 (ほうとう, 'dissipation, debauchery') and 生活 (せいかつ, 'life, living').