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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin