profligate Definition

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.