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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: profligate
pujur
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: profligate
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]
profligate
n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn:
rake,
rip,
blood,
roue]
2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn:
prodigal,
squanderer]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Profligate
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.]
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1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.]
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The foe is profligate, and run. --Hudibras.
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2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or
decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious;
dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
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A race more profligate than we. --Roscommon.
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Made prostitute and profligate muse. --Dryden.
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Syn: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved;
vicious; wicked. See
Abandoned.
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Profligate
\Prof"li*gate\, n.
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a
dissolute person.
“Such a profligate as Antony.” --Swift.
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Profligate
\Prof"li*gate\, v. t.
To drive away; to overcome.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey.
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