What is "profligate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does profligate mean in English? Meaning of profligate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "profligate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "profligate": a dissolute man in fashionable society

Noun

  • Meaning: a dissolute man in fashionable society
  • Synonyms: blood profligate rake rakehell rip roue
  • Hypernyms: debauchee libertine rounder
  • Meaning of "profligate": recklessly wasteful

    Adjective

  • Meaning: recklessly wasteful
  • Example: prodigal in their expenditures
  • Synonyms: extravagant prodigal profligate spendthrift
  • Similar: wasteful
  • Meaning of "profligate": a recklessly extravagant consumer

    Noun

  • Meaning: a recklessly extravagant consumer
  • Synonyms: prodigal profligate squanderer
  • Hyponyms: scattergood spend-all spender spendthrift waster wastrel
  • Hypernyms: consumer
  • Meaning of "profligate": unrestrained by convention or morality

    Adjective

  • Meaning: unrestrained by convention or morality
  • Example: Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society deplorably dissipated and degraded riotous living fast women
  • Synonyms: debauched degenerate degraded dissipated dissolute fast libertine profligate riotous
  • Similar: immoral
  • Adjective: (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined. Hudibras The foe is profligate, and run.Hudibras The foe is profligate, and run.Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. 2013, Ben Smith, "[1]", BBC Sport, 19 October 2013: Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate, United were far more ruthless.2013, Ben Smith, "[1]", BBC Sport, 19 October 2013: Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate, United were far more ruthless.Immoral; abandoned to vice. Roscommon a race more profligate than we Dryden Made prostitute and profligate muse.Roscommon a race more profligate than weDryden Made prostitute and profligate muse.
  • Synonyms:

    promiscuous, wild, wanton, reprobate, libertine, degenerate, abandoned, debauched, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, iniquitous, lax, lewd, licentious, loose, shameless, unprincipled, vicious, wicked, vitiated, extravagant, reckless, spendthrift, prodigal, immoderate, improvident, lavish, squandering, libertine, rake, waster, lecher, wastrel, reprobate, prodigal, degenerate, operator, good-for-nothing, no-good, debauchee, swinger, nighthawk, dissipater, old goat, roué,

    Antonyms:

    moral, careful, gentle, good, nice, saving, moral, careful, good, nice, saving,

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