Found 3 items, similar to profligate.
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.] [1913 Webster] 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The foe is profligate, and run. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. [1913 Webster] A race more profligate than we. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster] Made prostitute and profligate muse. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Syn: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned. [1913 Webster] Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. “Such a profligate as Antony.” --Swift. [1913 Webster] Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, v. t. To drive away; to overcome. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey. [1913 Webster]