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Meaning of profligate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  profligate
      adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
             [syn: {extravagant}, {prodigal}, {profligate},
             {spendthrift}]
      2: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
         debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and
         degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched},
         {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {dissolute},
         {libertine}, {profligate}, {riotous}, {fast}]
      n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: {rake},
           {rakehell}, {profligate}, {rip}, {blood}, {roue}]
      2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: {prodigal},
         {profligate}, {squanderer}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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