'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
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]
Synonyms of 'profligate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- backslider,
- bad egg,
- bad lot,
- black sheep,
- carnal,
- Casanova,
- contaminated,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- debased,
- debauched,
- debauchee,
- decadent,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- dissipated,
- dissipative,
- dissolute,
- Don Juan,
- easy come,
- easy go,
- erotic,
- evil,
- excessive,
- extravagant,
- fallen angel,
- fast,
- free,
- gallant,
- gay,
- gay deceiver,
- gay dog,
- good-for-nothing,
- immoderate,
- immoral,
- improvident,
- incontinent,
- indecent,
- iniquitous,
- intemperate,
- lady-killer,
- lascivious,
- lavish,
- lecher,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libertine,
- licentious,
- loose,
- lost sheep,
- lost soul,
- Lothario,
- lover-boy,
- miscreant,
- morally polluted,
- no-good,
- overgenerous,
- overlavish,
- overliberal,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- pervert,
- perverted,
- philanderer,
- pimp,
- polluted,
- pound-foolish,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- promiscuous,
- rake,
- rakehell,
- rakehellish,
- rakehelly,
- rakish,
- recidivist,
- reckless,
- recreant,
- reprobate,
- rip,
- rotten,
- roue,
- rounder,
- scapegrace,
- sensual,
- sensualist,
- shameless,
- sinful,
- sinner,
- skirt chaser,
- sodomite,
- sorry lot,
- spender,
- spendthrift,
- squanderer,
- squandering,
- steeped in iniquity,
- swinger,
- sybarite,
- sybaritic,
- tainted,
- trollop,
- unbridled,
- unprincipled,
- unrestrained,
- vice-corrupted,
- vitiated,
- voluptuary,
- voluptuous,
- walking phallus,
- wanton,
- warped,
- wasteful,
- waster,
- wastethrift,
- wastrel,
- whore,
- whoremonger,
- wicked,
- wild,
- wolf,
- woman chaser,
- womanizer