Profligate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Given over to dissipation; dissolute.
  • adj. Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant.
  • n. A profligate person; a wastrel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Overthrown, ruined.
  • adj. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
  • adj. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
  • n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  • n. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
  • v. To drive away; to overcome.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
  • adj. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute.
  • n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  • v. To drive away; to overcome.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To drive away; disperse; discomfit; overcome.
  • Overthrown; conquered; defeated.
  • Ruined in morals; abandoned to vice; lost to principle, virtue, or decency; extremely vicious; shamelessly wicked.
  • Synonyms Profligate, Abandoned, Reprobate, etc. See abandoned and wicked.
  • n. An abandoned person; one who has lost all regard for good principles, virtue, or decency.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. recklessly wasteful
  • n. a recklessly extravagant consumer
  • n. a dissolute man in fashionable society
  • adj. unrestrained by convention or morality
  • Equivalent
    wasteful    immoral   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    debauchee    libertine    rounder   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dissolute    depraved    vicious    vitiated    corrupt    wicked    abandoned    overthrown    beaten    conquered   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    licentious    unprincipled    deprave    corrupt    wicked    lawless    ungrateful    frivolous    lewd    tyrannical