Dictionary Entry
dissipation
dissipation is a 11-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- 2noun
A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- 3noun
A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- 4noun
useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
"if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"
"mindless dissipation of natural resources"
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- 5noun
dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- 6noun
breaking up and scattering by dispersion
"the dissipation of the mist"
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