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profligacy Definition


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profligate
adj
    1. Immoral and irresponsible; licentious or dissolute.
      Thesaurus: corrupt, promiscuous, wanton, wild, wicked, licentious, libertine, degenerate, debauched, immoderate, abandoned, loose, shameless, unprincipled, dissolute; Antonym: moral, upright.
    2. Scandalously extravagant.
noun
    1. A profligate person.
      Thesaurus: degenerate, reprobate, prodigal, libertine, rake, debauchee, roué.
    2. Someone who is scandalously extravagant
      Thesaurus: wastrel, squanderer, waster, spendthrift.
Derivative: profligacy
noun
    Immoral and irresponsible behaviour or character
      Thesaurus: promiscuity, excess, depravity, corruption, abandon, degeneracy, immorality, recklessness, fecklessness, wantonness, dissipation, laxity, prodigality; Antonym: morality, uprightness.
noun
    Scandalous extravagance
      Thesaurus: excess, extravagance, waste, wastefulness, dissipation; Antonym: parsimony, thrift.
Derivative: profligately
adverb
    Etymology: 17c: from Latin profligare, profligatum to strike down.



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