Dictionary Entry

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

1adjective
Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
2adjective
Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
3noun
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
4transitive verb
To drive away; to overcome.
5noun
a recklessly extravagant consumer
Synonyms
prodigal squanderer
6noun
a dissolute man in fashionable society
Synonyms
blood rake rakehell rip roue
7adjective
unrestrained by convention or morality
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"
"deplorably dissipated and degraded"
Synonyms
debauched degenerate degraded dissipated dissolute fast libertine riotous
8adjective
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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