English dictionary
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English adjective: profligate | |||
| 1. | profligate recklessly wasteful | ||
| Samples | Prodigal in their expenditures. | ||
| Synonyms | extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift | ||
| Similar | wasteful | ||
| Antonyms | thrifty | ||
| 2. | profligate unrestrained by convention or morality | ||
| Samples | Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society. Deplorably dissipated and degraded. Riotous living. Fast women. | ||
| Synonyms | debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous | ||
| Similar | immoral | ||
| Antonyms | moral | ||
English noun: profligate | |||
| 1. | profligate (person) a dissolute man in fashionable society | ||
| Synonyms | blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | debauchee, libertine, rounder | ||
| 2. | profligate (person) a recklessly extravagant consumer | ||
| Synonyms | prodigal, squanderer | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | consumer | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | scattergood, spend-all, spender, spendthrift, waster, wastrel | ||
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