Synonyms:
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
Meaning: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
Synonyms:
extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift
Meaning: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
prodigal, profligate, squanderer
Meaning: a recklessly extravagant consumer
Synonyms:
rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue
Meaning: a dissolute man in fashionable society
Usage examples
Themselves adepts in all sorts of bad practices, they were not slow to form an alliance with profligate characters who sometimes worked in concert with them, and sometimes alone, and who always framed the model for their own organization from that of the gipsies."
Miss Evelyn, to whom wrath and violence had hitherto been strangers, soon grew weary of such usage; and rashly, and without a witness, consented to a private marriage with Sir John Belmont, a very profligate young man, who had but too successfully found means to insinuate himself into her favour.