profligate

profligate is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Overthrown; beaten; conquered. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
2. adjective. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
3. noun. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
4. transitive verb. To drive away; to overcome.
5. noun. a recklessly extravagant consumer

   Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer

6. noun. a dissolute man in fashionable society

   Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue

7. adjective. unrestrained by convention or morality

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"

   "deplorably dissipated and degraded"

   Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous

8. adjective. recklessly wasteful

   "prodigal in their expenditures"

   Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift

Synonyms

prodigal, squanderer, blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous, extravagant, spendthrift

Common word forms

profligated, profligates, profligately, profligateness

Words from these letters

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