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Meaning of 'profligate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Profligate [ a.]
- Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
- Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
2 . Profligate [ n.]
- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
3 . Profligate [ v. t.]
- To drive away; to overcome.

Meaning of 'profligate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . profligate [ s]
Meaning (1):
- unrestrained by convention or morality
Example in sentence:
  • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society;
  • deplorably dissipated and degraded;
  • fast women;
  • riotous living
Meaning (2):
- recklessly wasteful
Example in sentence:
  • prodigal in their expenditures

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