Definition of profligate Profligate
/pɹɔˈflɪgejˌt/ - [profligeyt] - prof•li•gate
We found 19 definitions of profligate from 6 different sources.
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What does profligate mean?
WordNet
Adjective |
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| profligate - recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" | ||
| extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift | ||
| wasteful laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare | ||
| profligate - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" | ||
| debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, riotous, fast | ||
| immoral deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong | ||
Noun |
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| profligate - a recklessly extravagant consumer | ||
| prodigal, squanderer | ||
| consumer a person who uses goods or services | ||
| scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift, spender someone who spends money prodigally | ||
| profligate - a dissolute man in fashionable society | ||
| rake, rakehell, rip, blood, roue | ||
| debauchee, libertine, rounder a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | ||
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Wiktionary 
- profligate (Noun)
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. - profligate (Noun)
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual. - profligate (Verb)
To drive away; to overcome. - profligate (Adjective)
Overthrown, ruined. - profligate (Adjective)
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. - profligate (Adjective)
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- profligate (a.)
Overthrown; beaten; conquered. - profligate (a.)
Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. - profligate (n.)
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. - profligate (v. t.)
To drive away; to overcome.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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profligate
Who spends a lot, in an excessive manner. -
profligate
Displaying the effect of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure. -
profligate
Someone who spends money prodigiously and who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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profligate
prof′li-gāt, adj. abandoned to vice: without virtue or decency: dissolute: prodigal: (obs.) overthrown, defeated.—n. one leading a profligate life: one shamelessly vicious: an abandoned person.—ns. Prof′ligacy, Prof′ligateness, state or quality of being profligate: a vicious course of life.—adv. Prof′ligately. [L. profligatus, pa.p. of profligāre—pro, forward, fligĕre, to dash.]
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🔤- profligate, noun, singular of profligates.
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