Associations to the word «Profligate»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

PROFLIGATE, noun. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
PROFLIGATE, noun. A recklessly extravagant consumer.
PROFLIGATE, adjective. Recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures".
PROFLIGATE, adjective. Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women".

Wise words

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy