profligate 音标拼音: [pr'ɔflɪg
, et]
a . 放荡的,不检点的,浪费的
n . 放荡者,享乐者
放荡的,不检点的,浪费的放荡者,享乐者
profligate adj 1 :
recklessly wasteful ; "
prodigal in their expenditures "
[
synonym : {
extravagant }, {
prodigal }, {
profligate },
{
spendthrift }]
2 :
unrestrained by convention or morality ; "
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society "; "
deplorably dissipated and degraded "; "
riotous living "; "
fast women " [
synonym : {
debauched },
{
degenerate }, {
degraded }, {
dissipated }, {
dissolute },
{
libertine }, {
profligate }, {
riotous }, {
fast }]
n 1 :
a dissolute man in fashionable society [
synonym : {
rake },
{
rakehell }, {
profligate }, {
rip }, {
blood }, {
roue }]
2 :
a recklessly extravagant consumer [
synonym : {
prodigal },
{
profligate }, {
squanderer }]
Profligate \
Prof "
li *
gate \,
a . [
L .
profligatus ,
p .
p .
of profligare to strike or dash to the ground ,
to destroy ;
pro before a word akin to fligere to strike .
See {
Afflict }.]
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1 .
Overthrown ;
beaten ;
conquered . [
Obs .]
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The foe is profligate ,
and run . --
Hudibras .
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2 .
Broken down in respect of rectitude ,
principle ,
virtue ,
or decency ;
openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious ;
dissolute ;
as ,
profligate man or wretch .
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A race more profligate than we . --
Roscommon .
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Made prostitute and profligate muse . --
Dryden .
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Syn :
Abandoned ;
corrupt ;
dissolute ;
vitiated ;
depraved ;
vicious ;
wicked .
See {
Abandoned }.
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Profligate \
Prof "
li *
gate \,
n .
An abandoned person ;
one openly and shamelessly vicious ;
a dissolute person . "
Such a profligate as Antony ." --
Swift .
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Profligate \
Prof "
li *
gate \,
v .
t .
To drive away ;
to overcome .
Note : [
A Latinism ] [
Obs .] --
Harvey .
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124 Moby Thesaurus words for "
profligate ":
Casanova ,
Don Juan ,
Lothario ,
abandoned ,
backslider ,
bad egg ,
bad lot ,
black sheep ,
carnal ,
contaminated ,
corrupt ,
corrupted ,
debased ,
debauched ,
debauchee ,
decadent ,
degenerate ,
degraded ,
depraved ,
dissipated ,
dissipative ,
dissolute ,
easy come ,
easy go ,
erotic ,
evil ,
excessive ,
extravagant ,
fallen angel ,
fast ,
free ,
gallant ,
gay ,
gay deceiver ,
gay dog ,
good -
for -
nothing ,
immoderate ,
immoral ,
improvident ,
incontinent ,
indecent ,
iniquitous ,
intemperate ,
lady -
killer ,
lascivious ,
lavish ,
lecher ,
lecherous ,
lewd ,
libertine ,
licentious ,
loose ,
lost sheep ,
lost soul ,
lover -
boy ,
miscreant ,
morally polluted ,
no -
good ,
overgenerous ,
overlavish ,
overliberal ,
penny -
wise and pound -
foolish ,
pervert ,
perverted ,
philanderer ,
pimp ,
polluted ,
pound -
foolish ,
prodigal ,
profuse ,
promiscuous ,
rake ,
rakehell ,
rakehellish ,
rakehelly ,
rakish ,
recidivist ,
reckless ,
recreant ,
reprobate ,
rip ,
rotten ,
roue ,
rounder ,
scapegrace ,
sensual ,
sensualist ,
shameless ,
sinful ,
sinner ,
skirt chaser ,
sodomite ,
sorry lot ,
spender ,
spendthrift ,
squanderer ,
squandering ,
steeped in iniquity ,
swinger ,
sybarite ,
sybaritic ,
tainted ,
trollop ,
unbridled ,
unprincipled ,
unrestrained ,
vice -
corrupted ,
vitiated ,
voluptuary ,
voluptuous ,
walking phallus ,
wanton ,
warped ,
wasteful ,
waster ,
wastethrift ,
wastrel ,
whore ,
whoremonger ,
wicked ,
wild ,
wolf ,
woman chaser ,
womanizer
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