Profligate DOES NOT MEAN to EXPLAIN or GO THROUGH IN DETAIL. The various meanings of PROFLIGATE, which is used either as a NOUN or ADJECTIVE, but NEVER as a VERB, are as follows :-
Noun 1. profligate - a dissolute man in fashionable society
rake, rakehell, rip, roue, blood
debauchee, libertine, rounder - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
2. profligate...
more... - a recklessly extravagant consumer
prodigal, squanderer
consumer - a person who uses goods or services
scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift, spender - someone who spends money prodigally
waster, wastrel - someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
Adj. 1. profligate - recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
prodigal, spendthrift, extravagant
wasteful - tending to squander and waste
2. profligate - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, riotous, fast
immoral - deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
profligate
adjective
1. extravagant, reckless, squandering, wasteful, prodigal, spendthrift, immoderate, improvident the most profligate consumer of energy in the world
2. depraved, degenerate, immoral, wild, abandoned, loose, corrupt, dissipated, wicked, promiscuous, shameless, wanton, debauched, unprincipled, dissolute, iniquitous, libertine, vitiated, licentious setting his usual profligate and rakish example to society
depraved principled, moral, pure, decent, upright, virtuous, chaste, virginal
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