Profligate Definition
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
Words that rhyme with profligate
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