profligate
21profligate — [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 …
22profligate — adj. & n. adj. 1 licentious; dissolute. 2 recklessly extravagant. n. a profligate person. Derivatives: profligacy n. profligately adv. Etymology: L profligatus dissolute, past part. of profligare overthrow, ruin (as PRO (1), fligere strike down) …
23profligate / prolific — Profligate is to be wasteful and extravagant: Esmeralda is so profligate that she spent the entire million dollars she won in the lottery in one year. Prolific means abundant, fruitful, producing much : John Grisham is a prolific writer …
24profligate / prolific — Profligate is to be wasteful and extravagant: Esmeralda is so profligate that she spent the entire million dollars she won in the lottery in one year. Prolific means abundant, fruitful, producing much : John Grisham is a prolific writer …
25profligate — I. adjective Etymology: Latin profligatus, from past participle of profligare to strike down, from pro forward, down + fligare (akin to fligere to strike); akin to Greek phlibein to squeeze Date: 1647 1. completely given up to dissipation and… …
26profligate — 1. adjective a) Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. b) Immoral; abandoned to vice. Syn: extravagant, wasteful, immoral, lic …
27profligate — Synonyms and related words: Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, abandoned, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, black sheep, carnal, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, debauchee, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissipated,… …
28profligate — prof·li·gate || prÉ‘flɪgÉ™t / prÉ’ n. squanderer, excessively extravagant person; wanton person, licentious person; promiscuous person, depraved person adj. wasteful, overly extravagant; promiscuous, depraved; wanton, licentious …
29profligate — I. a. Depraved, corrupt, immoral, vitiated, dissolute, corrupted, very wicked, graceless, very vicious, shameless, abandoned, lost to virtue. II. n. Debauchee, rake, libertine, man of pleasure, reprobate, roué …
30profligate — adj 1. dissolute, libertine, rakish, rakehell; disssipated, lascivious, debauched; lecherous, lubricous, Sl. horny, satyric, satyrical, satyrlike, goatish, Archaic. lickerish; carnal, erotic, voluptuous, sensual, sybaritic; licentious, abandoned …
