Associations to the word «Profligate»
Noun
- Wit
- Consideration
- Churchill
- Folly
- Duchess
- Evil
- Patience
- Scandal
- Guilt
- Manner
- Sex
- Expense
- Duke
- Gentleman
- Satellite
- Sensation
- Temper
- Slave
- Money
- Heir
- Surrender
- Creature
- Passion
- Crowd
- Marriage
- Beauty
- Regard
- Youth
- Grace
- Liberty
- Reply
- Arthur
- Humanity
- Necessity
- Opinion
- Monk
- Principle
- Advantage
- Heart
- Life
- Crime
- Talent
- Doubt
- Madame
- Imagination
- Woman
- Person
- Million
- Lady
- Young
- Truth
- Father
- Promise
- Pope
- Lover
- Priest
- Kind
- Memory
- Lord
Adjective
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
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite
surprised to be taken at his word.