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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats