PROFLIGATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does profligate mean?
• PROFLIGATE (noun)
The noun PROFLIGATE has 2 senses:
1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
2. a recklessly extravagant consumer
Familiarity information: PROFLIGATE used as a noun is rare.
• PROFLIGATE (adjective)
The adjective PROFLIGATE has 2 senses:
1. recklessly wasteful
2. unrestrained by convention or morality
Familiarity information: PROFLIGATE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROFLIGATE (noun)
Meaning:
A dissolute man in fashionable society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
roue; rip; rakehell; rake; profligate; blood
Hypernyms ("profligate" is a kind of...):
debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
Meaning:
A recklessly extravagant consumer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
prodigal; squanderer; profligate
Hypernyms ("profligate" is a kind of...):
consumer (a person who uses goods or services)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profligate"):
scattergood; spend-all; spender; spendthrift (someone who spends money prodigally)
waster; wastrel (someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently)
• PROFLIGATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Recklessly wasteful
Synonyms:
profligate; spendthrift; extravagant; prodigal
Context example:
prodigal in their expenditures
Similar:
wasteful (tending to squander and waste)
Meaning:
Unrestrained by convention or morality
Synonyms:
libertine; dissolute; dissipated; degraded; degenerate; debauched; profligate; riotous; fast
Context examples:
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society / deplorably dissipated and degraded / riotous living / fast women
Similar:
immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)
