Associations to the word «Profligate»
Noun
- Nobleman
- Virtue
- Conduct
- Fortune
- Pleasure
- Vice
- Ignorant
- Gambler
- Genius
- Sin
- Wretch
- Retainer
- Companion
- Worst
- Happiness
- Consequence
- Character
- Disregard
- Rake
- Husband
- Aristocracy
- Spending
- Wickedness
- Coward
- Murderer
- Fellow
- Gentry
- Intrigue
- Greatest
- Man
- Expenditure
- Scoundrel
- Moral
- Liar
- Nobility
- Excess
- Courtier
- Sinner
- Lifestyle
- Favourite
- Luxury
- Thief
- Indignation
- Cicero
- Habit
- Duc
- Plea
- Disgrace
- Rite
- Contempt
- Equal
- Cruelty
- Tyrant
- Wealth
- Debt
- Affection
- Severity
- Witness
- Conscience
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
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.