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profligate |
Grep of noun profligate profligate Overview of noun profligate The noun profligate has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. rake, profligate, rip, blood, roue -- (a dissolute man in fashionable society) 2. prodigal, profligate, squanderer -- (a recklessly extravagant consumer) Overview of adj profligate The adj profligate has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift -- (recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures") 2. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast -- (unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women") Antonyms of adj profligate 2 senses of profligate Sense 1 extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift INDIRECT (VIA wasteful) -> thrifty Sense 2 debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast INDIRECT (VIA immoral, amoral) -> moral INDIRECT (VIA moral, immoral) -> amoral, unmoral Similarity of adj profligate 2 senses of profligate Sense 1 extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift => wasteful (vs. thrifty) Sense 2 debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast => immoral (vs. moral) (vs. amoral) Attributes of adj profligate Familiarity of adj profligate profligate used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count = 2) Grep of adj profligate profligate Overview of noun profligate The noun profligate has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. rake, profligate, rip, blood, roue -- (a dissolute man in fashionable society) 2. prodigal, profligate, squanderer -- (a recklessly extravagant consumer) Overview of adj profligate The adj profligate has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift -- (recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures") 2. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast -- (unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women")
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