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Definition of Profligate
1. Adjective. Recklessly wasteful. "Prodigal in their expenditures"
Similar to: Wasteful
Derivative terms: Extravagance, Extravagance, Prodigal, Prodigality, Prodigality
2. Noun. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
3. Adjective. Unrestrained by convention or morality. "Fast women"
Similar to: Immoral
Derivative terms: Degenerate, Dissoluteness, Libertine, Riot
4. Noun. A recklessly extravagant consumer.
Generic synonyms: Consumer
Specialized synonyms: Scattergood, Spend-all, Spender, Spendthrift, Waster, Wastrel
Derivative terms: Prodigal, Squander, Squander
Definition of Profligate
1. a. Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
2. n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
3. v. t. To drive away; to overcome.
Definition of Profligate
1. Adjective. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. ¹
2. Adjective. Immoral; abandoned to vice. ¹
3. Noun. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. ¹
4. Noun. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual. ¹
5. Verb. (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Profligate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profligate
Literary usage of Profligate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives and Opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler: United States District by William Lyon Mackenzie (1845)
"Every profligate vote had his willing signature ; and, in his message of Dec.
... profligate presidents had not been verv particular in their inq lines. ..."
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"His profligate political con- duct. good intentions; that be allowed the practice
of the Court to remain pretty much as he found it; and that if he saw and ..."
3. Goldsmith's Roman History: Abridged by Himself, for the Use of Schools by Oliver Goldsmith (1825)
"Lentulus, one of his profligate assistants, who had been praetor, or judge in
the city, was to preside in their general councils : Cethegus, ..."
4. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"But the profligate expedients were exhausted by which successive ministers had
attempted to avert the great crisis, in which the credit and power of the ..."
5. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... hinder • lessly [quality of being profligate Prohibition ... ding [contrive,
jut out, shoot profligate, ..."
6. The seasons by James Thomson (1824)
"... has not unhappily observed, that this inimitable description of connubial love
is forcible enough to affect a Dutchman and to reclaim a profligate. ..."
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