Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: profligate
IPA transcription: [pɹ'ɔflɪɡ,eɪt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • 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.