profligate (n.)

  1. a dissolute man in fashionable society

    [ Syn: rake , rakehell , rip , blood , roue ]

  2. a recklessly extravagant consumer

    [ Syn: prodigal , squanderer ]

    profligate (adj.)

  1. recklessly wasteful; prodigal in their expenditures

    [ Syn: extravagant , prodigal , spendthrift ]

  2. unrestrained by convention or morality; Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society; deplorably dissipated and degraded; riotous living; fast women

    [ Syn: debauched , degenerate , degraded , dissipated , dissolute , libertine , riotous , fast ]

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