Definitions for Profligate
ˈprɒf lɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪtprof·li·gate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, rouenoun

   a dissolute man in fashionable society

2. prodigal, profligate, squandereradjective

   a recklessly extravagant consumer

3. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthriftadjective

   recklessly wasteful

   "prodigal in their expenditures"

4. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fastadjective

   unrestrained by convention or morality

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PROFLIGATEadjective

   Abandoned; lost to virtue and decency; shameless.

   Etymology: profligatus, Lat.

   Time sensibly all things impairs;
   Our fathers have been worse than theirs,
   And we than ours; next age will see
   A race more profligate than we,
   With all the pains we take, have skill enough to be. Wentworth Dillon.

   How far have we
   Prophan’d thy heav’nly gift of poesy?
   Made prostitute and profligate the muse,
   Debas’d to each obscene and impious use,
   Whose harmony was first ordain’d above
   For tongues of angels, and for hymns of love. Dryden.

   Though Phalaris his brazen bull were there,
   And he wou’d dictate what he’d have you swear,
   Be not so profligate, but rather chuse
   To guard your honour, and your life to lose. Dryden.

   Melancholy objects and subjects will, at times, impress the most profligate spirits. Clarissa.

2. Profligatenoun

   An abandoned shameless wretch.

   It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for his religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. Add.

   I have heard a profligate offer much stronger arguments against paying his debts, than ever he was known to do against christianity; because he happened to be closer pressed by the bailiff than the parson. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies.

   How could such a profligate as Antony, or a boy of eighteen, like Octavius, ever dare to dream of giving the law to such an empire and people. Jonathan Swift.

3. To Profligateverb

   To drive away. A word borrowed from the Latin without alteration of the sense, but not used.

   Etymology: profligo, Lat.

   Lavatories, to wash the temples, hands, wrists, and jugulars, do potently profligate and keep off the venom. Gideon Harvey.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. profligate

   A spendthrift (also profligate or prodigal) is someone who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful with money, often to a point where the spending climbs well beyond his or her means. "Spendthrift" derives from an obsolete sense of the word "thrift" to mean prosperity rather than frugality, so a "spendthrift" is one who has spent their prosperity.Historical figures who have been characterised as spendthrifts include George IV of the United Kingdom, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Marie Antoinette the Queen of France.The term is often used by news media as an adjective applied to governments who are thought to be wasting public money.

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1. profligate

   Profligate refers to a person who is recklessly extravagant or wastefully extravagant in the use of resources such as money. It can also refer to a person who is given to or marked by immorality or vice, particularly in the context of debauchery or hedonism.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Profligateadjective

   overthrown; beaten; conquered

2. Profligateadjective

   broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch

3. Profligatenoun

   an abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person

4. Profligateverb

   to drive away; to overcome

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Profligate

   prof′li-gāt, adj. abandoned to vice: without virtue or decency: dissolute: prodigal: (obs.) overthrown, defeated.—n. one leading a profligate life: one shamelessly vicious: an abandoned person.—ns. Prof′ligacy, Prof′ligateness, state or quality of being profligate: a vicious course of life.—adv. Prof′ligately. [L. profligatus, pa.p. of profligāre—pro, forward, fligĕre, to dash.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Profligate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Profligate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Profligate in a Sentence

1. Justice Joseph Story:

   Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Profligate
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Profligate
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profligate
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Profligate
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Profligate