profligate meaning and definition

PROFLIGATE noun

Definition of profligate (noun)

1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
   • synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue
2. a recklessly extravagant consumer
   • synonyms: prodigal, squanderer

PROFLIGATE adjective

Definition of profligate (adjective)

1. recklessly wasteful
   • "prodigal in their expenditures"
   • synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift
2. unrestrained by convention or morality
   • "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
   • synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous