Profligate

Adjective

 * 1) Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
 * 2) Immoral; abandoned to vice.

Synonyms

 * extravagant, wasteful
 * immoral, licentious
 * See also Thesaurus:prodigal

Derived terms

 * profligateness

Noun

 * 1) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
 * 2) An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

Synonyms

 * wastrel
 * See also Thesaurus:spendthrift and Thesaurus:prodigal

Verb

 * 1)  To drive away; to overcome.
 * 2) * 1840, Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce, page 157:
 * Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;

Synonyms

 * overcome

Adjectives for Profligate
despairing; lecherous; hopeless; debauched; drunken; unsocial.

Verbs for Profligate
admonish—; chastise—; condemn—; convert from—; punish—; rebuke—; reform—; reproach—; scald—; —brutalizes; —corrupts; —demoralizes; —deviates; —errs; —lapses; —offends; —sins; —slips; —strays; —transgresses; —trespasses; —sinks.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From profligatus:, participle of profligo: < pro: + fligere:

Adjective

 * Finnish: tuhlaavainen
 * Hungarian: tékozló


 * Russian: неэкономный, расточительный


 * Armenian: անառակ
 * Finnish: paheellinen


 * Hungarian:, feslett
 * Russian: распутный, развратный

Noun

 * Russian:, распутник


 * Russian: расточитель, транжир,

Related terms

 * profligacy
 * profligately
 * profligateness
 * profligation