'Profligate' definitions:

Definition of 'profligate'

From: WordNet
adjective
Recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift]
adjective
Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]
noun
A dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
noun
A recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: prodigal, profligate, squanderer]

Definition of 'Profligate'

From: GCIDE
  • Profligate \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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The foe is profligate, and run. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. [1913 Webster]
  • A race more profligate than we. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
  • Made prostitute and profligate muse. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Profligate'

From: GCIDE
  • Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." --Swift. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Profligate'

From: GCIDE
  • Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, v. t. To drive away; to overcome.
  • Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey. [1913 Webster]

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