profligate
11profligate — 1. adjective 1) profligate local authorities Syn: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, prodigal Ant: thrifty, frugal 2) a profligate lifestyle Syn: dissolute …
12profligate — [[t]prɒ̱flɪgɪt[/t]] ADJ GRADED Someone who is profligate spends too much money or uses too much of something. [FORMAL] ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world. Syn: wasteful Ant: careful …
13profligate — 1 adjective formal 1 wasting money in a silly and careless way: profligate spending of the taxpayer s money 2 behaving in an immoral way and not caring about it at all profligacy noun (U) 2 noun (C) formal someone who is profligate …
14profligate — profligately, adv. profligateness, n. /prof li git, gayt /, adj. 1. utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute. 2. recklessly prodigal or extravagant. n. 3. a profligate person. [1525 35; < L profligatus broken down in… …
15profligate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wanton, reckless, wild, intemperate; extravagant, wasteful. n. roué, rake, libertine, lecher, reprobate; wastrel, spendthrift, squanderer, playboy. See waste, impurity, evildoer. Ant., economical.… …
16profligate — prof|li|gate1 [ praflıgət ] adjective FORMAL wasting money or other things ╾ prof|li|ga|cy noun uncount profligate prof|li|gate 2 [ praflıgət ] noun count someone who wastes things and does not think about the effects of their actions …
17profligate — [16] Something that is profligate has etymologically been ‘beaten down’ to a state of ruination or degradation. The word was adapted from Latin prōflīgātus ‘destroyed, dissolute’, an adjective based on the past participle of prōflīgāre ‘beat down …
18profligate — [ prɒflɪgət] adjective recklessly extravagant or wasteful. ↘licentious; dissolute. noun a profligate person. Derivatives profligacy noun profligately adverb Origin C16: from L. profligatus dissolute , past participle of profligare overthrow, ruin …
19profligate — prof•li•gate [[t]ˈprɒf lɪ gɪt, ˌgeɪt[/t]] adj. 1) utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute 2) recklessly prodigal or extravagant 3) a profligate person • Etymology: 1525–35; < L prōflīgātus broken down in character,… …
20profligate — /ˈprɒfləgət / (say profluhguht) adjective 1. utterly and shamelessly immoral; thoroughly dissolute. 2. recklessly prodigal or extravagant. –noun 3. a profligate person. {Latin prōflīgātus, past participle, overthrown, ruined} –profligately,… …
