Profligate Definition & Meaning
profligate
- adjective
- recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
- unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- noun
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a recklessly extravagant consumer
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- What does profligate mean?
- recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" a dissolute man in fashionable society a recklessly extravagant consumer
- What part of speech is profligate?
- Profligate is an adjective and a noun.
- How many definitions does profligate have?
- Profligate has 4 definitions across 2 parts of speech (adjective, noun).