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   Prof·li·gate

   /ˈpräfləɡət/

   

   adjective

   • 1. recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources: "profligate consumers of energy" Similar wastefulextravagantspendthriftimprovidentprodigalimmoderateexcessivethriftlessimprudentrecklessirresponsibleOpposite thriftyfrugal
   • ▪ licentious; dissolute: "he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle" Similar dissolutedegeneratedissipateddebauchedcorruptdepravedreprobateunprincipledimmoralpromiscuousloosewantonlicentiouslasciviouslecherouslibertinelewddecadentrakishshamelessabandonedunrestrainedfastfast-livingsybariticvoluptuaryOpposite moralupright

   noun

   • 1. a licentious, dissolute person: "he is a drunkard and a profligate" Similar libertinedebaucheedegeneratereprobaterouélecherrakeloose-liverdissolute personsybaritevoluptuarysensualistinformal:lechdated:rip

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘overthrown, routed’): from Latin profligatus ‘dissolute’, past participle of profligare ‘overthrow, ruin’, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + fligere ‘strike down’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. profligately adverb

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