What part of speech is profligate?

Profligate can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. profligate is a noun, singular of profligates.
  • 2. profligate is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more profligate
    most profligate
  • Positive: profligate 
  • Comparative: more profligate
  • Superlative: most profligate

Adjective to adverb

What does profligate mean?

Definitions

Adjective

profligate - recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
profligate - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

Verb

profligate - To drive away; to overcome.

Noun

profligate - a recklessly extravagant consumer
profligate - a dissolute man in fashionable society

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