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profligate |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. ``Such a profligate as Antony.'' --Swift. 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"li*gate\, 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: profligate adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: {extravagant}, {prodigal}, {spendthrift}] 2: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {dissolute}, {libertine}, {riotous}, {fast}] n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: {rake}, {rip}, {blood}, {roue}] 2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: {prodigal}, {squanderer}]
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