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

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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

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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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