Profligate - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈprɑːflɪɡət|
Brit.
|ˈprɒflɪɡət|
noun
- a dissolute man in fashionable society (syn: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue)
- a recklessly extravagant consumer (syn: prodigal)
- a recklessly extravagant consumer (syn: prodigal)
adjective
- recklessly wasteful (syn: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift)
- unrestrained by convention or morality (syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous)
- unrestrained by convention or morality (syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous)
Extra examples
She was very profligate in her spending.
...profligate movie producers hoping to create the next blockbuster...
...a profligate who could not really afford the grand style he maintained at Monticello, Jefferson died deeply in debt...
...a drunken profligate, he was given to wretched excess in every aspect of his life...
Everyone seemed fond of statistics, but the counterterrorism experts were especially profligate with numbers.
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