card-playing

1. 1.

   preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

   “led a dissipated life”

   “a betting man”

   “a card-playing son of a bitch”

   “a gambling fool”

   “sporting gents and their ladies”

   Synonymsdissipatedbettingsporting

   Similarindulgent

Questions about card-playing

What does card-playing mean?

card-playing means "preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance".

How many syllables are in card-playing?

card-playing has 2 syllables: card--playing. The stress falls on "card-".

What is another word for card-playing?

Close synonyms include dissipated, betting, sporting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is card-playing a common word?

card-playing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.