Overview of noun profligate

The noun profligate has 2 senses

• rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue -- (a dissolute man in fashionable society)


• prodigal, profligate, squanderer -- (a recklessly extravagant consumer)

Overview of adj profligate

The adj profligate has 2 senses

• extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift -- (recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures")


• debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast -- (unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women")