What does profligate mean?
Profligate means Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly..
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/ˈpɹɒflɪɡət/ · adjective
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly..
[H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!
His undignified and profligate exile—needy suitor to-day to the only heiress of the royal French blood, and to-morrow to one of the nieces of the Italian adventurer, Mazarin. Utterly neglectful of what he owes to the kingdom which he hopes to regain, Charles has learned but adversity's worst lesson—expediency.
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.
This luxury-loving and profligate shell company is registered at a betting shop on the Caledonian Road, an unlovely thoroughfare in North London on which you'd be more likely to find amphetamines than a top-notch lawyer.
Made prostitute and profligate the muse.
Time ſenſibly all things impairs; / Our fathers have been worſe than theirs; / And we than ours; next age will ſee / A race more profligate than we / (With all the pains we take) have ſkill enough to be.
The Canon laws […] with their Author, are profligate out of this realm.
By whiche onely policie, the kynges armie was profligate and dispersed.
Use profligate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Profligate means Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly..
Common synonyms include extravagant, wasteful, prodigal, improvident.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!
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