profligate
Plural: profligates
Noun
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a recklessly extravagant consumer
- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
- An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
Adjective Satellite
- recklessly wasteful
- unrestrained by convention or morality
Adj
- Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
- Immoral; abandoned to vice.
- Profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.
- Overthrown, ruined.
Verb
- To drive away; to overcome.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3)), from pro- (“forward”) + fligō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Synonyms
blood, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, extravagant, fast, libertine, prodigal, rake, rakehell, riotous, rip, roue, spendthrift, squanderer, big spender, dingthrift, immoral, improvident, imprudent, lavish, licentious, neve, overspender, profligate, reckless, saprophage, scattergood, slipstring, slipthrift, sparkler, spend-all, splurge, splurger, squandering, uneconomical, unthrift, unthrifty, wasteful, wastegood, waster, wastethrift, wastrel
Scrabble Score: 16
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