Profligate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpɹɒflɪɡət/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Profligate is an adjective meaning Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
Meaning
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
More Meanings
- Immoral; abandoned to vice.
- Profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.
- Overthrown, ruined.
- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
- An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
- (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
Example Sentences
Made prostitute and profligate the muse.
The Canon laws […] with their Author, are profligate out of this realm.
By whiche onely policie, the kynges armie was profligate and dispersed.
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.
Word Forms
- profligates
- profligating
- profligated
Synonyms for profligate
Depending on context, synonyms include extravagant, wasteful, prodigal, improvident, imprudent, lavish.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spendthrift, prodigal, extravagant, wasteful, dissolute, dissipated.
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