prodigal

Plural: prodigals

Noun

• One who spends money or resources lavishly and foolishly.
• a recklessly extravagant consumer
• A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.

Adjective Satellite

• recklessly wasteful
  • "prodigal in their expenditures"

Adj

• Wastefully extravagant.
• Yielding profusely, lavish.
• Profuse, lavishly abundant.
• Behaving as a prodigal son:
• Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal.
• Behaving as a prodigal son:
• Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment.

Examples

• A prodigal Scrabble player might waste high-value tiles on low-scoring words.
• He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.
• How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget?
• She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.
• The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.

Synonyms

extravagant, profligate, spendthrift, squanderer, abounding, abundant, ample, aplenty, big spender, bountiful, brimming, copious, dingthrift, excessive, extreme, exuberant, free, galore, generous, immoderate, improvident, imprudent, inordinate, intemperate, largifical, largifluous, lavish, liberal, neve, nimious, numerous, obscene, over the top, overflowing, overmuch, overspender, overweening, plenteous, plentevous, plentiful, prodigal, profluent, profuse, prolific, reckless, saprophage, scattergood, slipstring, slipthrift, sparkler, spend-all, splurge, splurger, squandering, superabundant, teeming, uberous, undue, uneconomical, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unthrift, unthrifty, wanton, wasteful, wastegood, waster, wastethrift, wastrel

Antonyms

extravagant, frugal, prodigal, stingy

Related Words

generous

Anagrams of prodigal