profligate
Meaning of profligate
- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
- An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
verb
To drive away; to overcome.
adjective- Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
- Immoral; abandoned to vice.
- Overthrown, ruined.
Information about profligate
- The plural form of profligate is: profligates.
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Hyphenation of profligate
prof-li-gate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- profligate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
profligate synonyms
Meaning extravagant:
extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift
Meaning debauched:
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, riotous, fast
Meaning rake:
Meaning prodigal:
Meaning :
wastrel, overcome, immoral, licentious, wasteful
Translation of profligate
- Spanish: extravagante, derrochador, derrochadora, lascivo, vicioso, licencioso, libertino, viciosa, licenciosa, libertina, crápula, lasciva, lujurioso, lujuriosa, depravado, depravada, despilfarrador
- German: verschwenderisch, ausschweifend, liederlich
- French: gaspilleur, prodigue, dépensier, dissipateur, débauché, dévergondé, dissolu, libertin, lascive
- Italian: spendaccione, prodigo, dissipatore, scialacquatore, debosciato, libertino, dissoluto, dissipato, lascivo, svergognato, licenzioso
- Portuguese: devasso, gastão, esbanjador
Words that rhyme with profligate
gate, Agate, agate, divagate, ellagate, extravagate, gagate, indagate, jaspagate, pervagate, plagate, propagate, refragate, repropagate, runagate, seagate, suffragate, woodagate, Ludgate, Lydgate, endgate, floodgate, headgate, landgate, lidgate, Applegate, Cripplegate, ablegate, abnegate, aggregate, allegate, cattlegate, coaggregate, congregate, delegate, denegate, desegregate, disaggregate, disgregate, foregate, horsegate, legate, macroaggregate, naegate, negate, nondelegate, predelegate, prelegate, prolegate, reaggregate