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1. wastefully or recklessly extravagant. 2. giving or yielding profusely; lavish (usu. fol. by of or with ): to be prodigal with money. 3. lavishly abundant; profuse: prodigal resources. n. 4. a person who spends money or uses resources with wasteful extravagance; wastrel or profligate.
Use the adjective prodigal to describe someone who spends too much money, or something very wasteful. Your prodigal spending on fancy coffee drinks might leave you with no money to buy lunch.
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home. See prodigal in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: prodigal. Definition of prodigal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
2 days ago · prodigal (comparative more prodigal, superlative most prodigal) Wastefully extravagant. He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays. The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.
1. You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person. [literary] [...] 2. Someone who behaves in a prodigal way spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left.
(often followed by of or with) Someone yielding profusely, lavish. She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles. How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget? Wiktionary. More Adjective Definitions (1) Synonyms: spendthrift. profligate. extravagant. profuse. superabundant. riotous. opulent.
Synonyms for PRODIGAL: wasteful, profligate, generous, extravagant, spendthrift, unthrifty, high-rolling, liberal; Antonyms of PRODIGAL: frugal, thrifty, economical, parsimonious, conserving, miserly, penurious, spare.
