profligate

1. 1.

   recklessly wasteful

   “prodigal in their expenditures”

   Synonymsextravagantprodigalspendthrift

   Similarwasteful
2. 2.

   unrestrained by convention or morality

   “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”

   “deplorably dissipated and degraded”

   “riotous living”

   “fast women”

   Synonymsdebaucheddegeneratedegradeddissipateddissolutelibertineriotousfast

   Similarimmoral

Other forms of profligate

plural

profligates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about profligate

What does profligate mean?

profligate means "a dissolute man in fashionable society". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in profligate?

profligate has 3 syllables: pro-fli-gate. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɔflɪˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for profligate?

Close synonyms include rake, rakehell, rip, blood, roue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is profligate a common word?

profligate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with profligate?

28 words rhyme with profligate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.