profligate
1. a dissolute man in fashionable society • Syn: rake, rakehell, rip, blood, roue • Hypernyms: libertine, debauchee, rounder 2. a recklessly extravagant consumer • Syn: prodigal, squanderer • Derivationally related forms: squander (for: squanderer), prodigal (for: prodigal) • Hypernyms: consumer • Hyponyms: spendthrift, spend-all, spender, scattergood, wastrel, waster
1. unrestrained by convention or morality - Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society - deplorably dissipated and degraded - riotous living - fast women • Syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, riotous, fast • Similar to: immoral • Derivationally related forms: riot (for: riotous), libertine (for: libertine), dissoluteness (for: dissolute), degenerate (for: degenerate) 2. recklessly wasteful - prodigal in their expenditures • Syn: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift • Similar to: wasteful • Derivationally related forms: prodigal (for: prodigal), prodigality (for: prodigal), extravagance (for: extravagant)
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