Synonyms of the word profligate


PROFLIGATEBLOOD - CONSUMER - DEBAUCHED - DEBAUCHEE - DEGENERATE - DEGRADED - DISSIPATED - DISSOLUTE - EXTRAVAGANT - FAST - IMMORAL - LIBERTINE - PRODIGAL - RAKE - RAKEHELL - RIOTOUS - RIP - ROUNDER - SPENDTHRIFT - SQUANDERER - WASTEFUL

profligate

  • adj. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
  • adj. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
  • adj. (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
  • n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  • n. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
  • v. (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

blood

  • n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen…
  • n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to…
  • n. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
  • n. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
  • n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  • n. (obsolete) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  • n. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  • n. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake.
  • n. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
  • v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
  • v. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
  • v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

consumer

  • n. One who, or that which, consumes.
  • n. (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
  • n. (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.
  • n. (ecology) an organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

debauched

  • adj. Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted;…
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of debauch.

debauchee

  • n. Somebody who is debauched; somebody who is dissolute and acts without moral restraint.
  • n. Person addicted to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

degenerate

  • adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
  • adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
  • adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
  • adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
  • adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
  • n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

degraded

  • adj. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
  • adj. (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain…
  • adj. (heraldry) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the…
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of degrade.

dissipated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of dissipate.
  • adj. Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.

dissolute

  • adj. Unrestrained by morality.
  • adj. Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.

extravagant

  • adj. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
  • adj. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
  • adj. Exorbitant.
  • adj. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

fast

  • adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
  • adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
  • adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".).
  • adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
  • adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
  • adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
  • adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
  • adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or…
  • adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
  • adj. (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
  • adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
  • adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
  • adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
  • adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
  • adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
  • adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
  • adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
  • n. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination,…
  • interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
  • v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things,…
  • n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
  • n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

immoral

  • adj. Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law.

libertine

  • n. (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
  • n. One who is freethinking in religious matters.
  • n. Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety;…
  • adj. Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

prodigal

  • adj. wastefully extravagant.
  • adj. (often followed by of or with) someone yielding profusely, lavish.
  • adj. profuse, lavishly abundant.
  • adj. returning after abandoning a person, group, or ideal, especially for selfish reasons; being a prodigal…
  • n. A prodigal person, a spendthrift.

rake

  • n. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris,…
  • n. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
  • n. (rail transport) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
  • n. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
  • n. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
  • n. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
  • n. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
  • v. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris…
  • v. To search thoroughly.
  • v. To spray with gunfire.
  • v. To claw at; to scratch.
  • v. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in).
  • v. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
  • n. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
  • n. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
  • n. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
  • v. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct.
  • v. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.
  • n. A man habituated to immoral conduct.
  • v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
  • v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
  • n. (provincial, Northern England) A course; direction; stretch.
  • n. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) A range, stray.
  • v. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

rakehell

  • adj. (archaic) Immoral; dissolute.
  • n. (archaic) A lewd or wanton person; a debauchee; a rake.

riotous

  • adj. having the characteristics of a riot.
  • adj. causing, inciting or taking part in a riot.
  • adj. unrestrained and boisterous; degenerate or dissolute.

rip

  • n. A tear (in paper, etc.).
  • n. A type of tide or current.
  • n. (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
  • n. (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
  • n. (Britain, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
  • v. (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric),…
  • v. (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move quickly and destructively.
  • v. (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain. Contrast crosscut.
  • v. (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable…
  • v. (slang, narcotics) To take a "hit" of marijuana.
  • v. (slang) To fart.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on).
  • v. (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
  • v. To move or act fast, to rush headlong.
  • v. (archaic) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover;…
  • v. (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
  • n. A wicker basket for fish.
  • n. (colloquial, regional, dated) A worthless horse; a nag.
  • n. (colloquial, regional, dated) An immoral man; a rake, a scoundrel.

rounder

  • adj. comparative form of round: more round.
  • n. A Methodist preacher traveling a circuit, also referred to as a circuit rider.
  • n. A railroad man who worked at a roundhouse, operating the turntable.
  • n. A person who earns a living by playing cards.
  • n. A person who makes the rounds of bars, saloons, and similar establishments; figuratively, a debaucher…
  • n. One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
  • n. A tool for making an edge or surface round.

spendthrift

  • adj. Wasteful, improvident or profligate.
  • adj. Lavish or extravagant.
  • n. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

squanderer

  • n. Agent noun of squander; one who squanders.

wasteful

  • adj. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  • adj. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

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