About The Word Profligate
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Profligate
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What's The Definition Of Profligate?
[n] a dissolute man in fashionable society
[n] a recklessly extravagant consumer [adj] unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [adj] recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" Synonyms | Synonyms for Profligate: blood | debauched | degenerate | degraded | dissipated | dissolute | extravagant | fast | immoral | libertine | prodigal | prodigal | rake | riotous | rip | roue | spendthrift | squanderer | wasteful Related Terms | Find terms related to Profligate: See Also | consumer | debauchee | libertine | rounder | spend-all | spender | spendthrift | waster | wastrel Profligate In Webster's Dictionary \Prof"li*gate\, a. [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. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. ``Such a profligate as Antony.'' --Swift. \Prof"li*gate\, v. t. To drive away; to overcome. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey. |
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