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English Dictionary: profligate	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for profligate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
profligate adj recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" Synonym(s): extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" Synonym(s): debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast n a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue] a recklessly extravagant consumer Synonym(s): prodigal, profligate, squanderer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, v. t. To drive away; to overcome. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Profligate \Prof"ligate\, a. [L. profligatus, p. p. of profligare to strike or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to fligere to strike. See {Afflict}.] 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. --Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate* man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. --Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. --Dryden. Syn: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See {Abandoned}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Profligate \Prof"ligate\, n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. [bd]Such a profligate* as Antony.[b8] --Swift.