Profligate

ahd-5
  • adjective. Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation.
  • adjective. Given to or characterized by reckless waste; wildly extravagant.
  • noun. A profligate person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To drive away; disperse; discomfit; overcome.
  • Overthrown; conquered; defeated.
  • Ruined in morals; abandoned to vice; lost to principle, virtue, or decency; extremely vicious; shamelessly wicked.
  • Synonyms Profligate, Abandoned, Reprobate, etc. See abandoned and wicked.
  • noun. An abandoned person; one who has lost all regard for good principles, virtue, or decency.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
  • adjective. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute.
  • noun. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  • transitive verb. To drive away; to overcome.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Overthrown, ruined.
  • adjective. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
  • adjective. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
  • noun. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  • noun. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
  • verb. To drive away; to overcome.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. recklessly wasteful
  • noun. a recklessly extravagant consumer
  • noun. a dissolute man in fashionable society
  • adjective. unrestrained by convention or morality
  • Word Usage
    "N'dour has strongly criticised what he calls the profligate spending of the Wade leadership in a country where formal employment is rare and average income per head is $3 a day."
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    immoral  wasteful  
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