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The meaning of PRODIGAL is characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish. How to use prodigal in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Prodigal.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32.
Prodigal definition: wastefully or recklessly extravagant. See examples of PRODIGAL used in a sentence.
someone who spends or uses large amounts of money, time, energy, etc., especially in a way that is not very wise: The prodigals among them will always be more numerous than the misers. She, who was formerly a prodigal, showed herself suddenly wise and she loathed her shameful deeds.
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.
Synonyms for PRODIGAL: wasteful, profligate, generous, extravagant, spendthrift, unthrifty, high-rolling, liberal; Antonyms of PRODIGAL: frugal, thrifty, economical, parsimonious, conserving, miserly, penurious, spare.
Prodigal expenditures on unneeded weaponry; a prodigal nephew who squandered his inheritance.
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.
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.
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.
