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PROFLIGATE
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality; “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”; “deplorably dissipated and degraded”; “riotous living”; “fast women”
extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift
(adjective) recklessly wasteful; “prodigal in their expenditures”
prodigal, profligate, squanderer
(noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer
rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue
(noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
profligate (comparative more profligate, superlative most profligate)
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
(obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
Synonyms
• (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly): extravagant, wasteful, prodigal
• (immoral, abandoned to vice): immoral, licentious
• See also prodigal
Noun
profligate (plural profligates)
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
Synonyms
• (overly wasteful or extravagant individual): wastrel
• See also spendthrift and prodigal
Verb
profligate (third-person singular simple present profligates, present participle profligating, simple past and past participle profligated)
(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
Synonyms
• (to drive away; to overcome): overcome
Source: Wiktionary
Prof"li*gate, a. Etym: [L. profligatus, p. p. of profligare to strike or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to fligere to strike. See Afflict.]
1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.
2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.
Syn.
– Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned.
Prof"li*gate, n.
Definition: An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.
Prof"li*gate, v. t.
Definition: To drive away; to overcome.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Harvey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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