profligately

1. 1.

   in a dissolute way

   Synonymsdissolutely

Questions about profligately

What does profligately mean?

profligately means "in a dissolute way".

How many syllables are in profligately?

profligately has 5 syllables: pro-fli-ga-te-ly. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for profligately?

Close synonyms include dissolutely. 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 profligately a common word?

profligately 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.