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Profligate Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Profligate has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a dissolute man in fashionable society

2

a recklessly extravagant consumer

3

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

Verb
1

To drive away; to overcome.

Adjective
1

recklessly wasteful

"prodigal in their expenditures"

2

unrestrained by convention or morality

"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"

"deplorably dissipated and degraded"

"riotous living"

"fast women"

3

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

Example Sentences
"prodigal in their expenditures" adjective
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society" adjective
"deplorably dissipated and degraded" adjective
"riotous living" adjective
"fast women" adjective
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