Thesaurus: profligate

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1. a. Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
2. a. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
3. n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
4. v. t. To drive away; to overcome.
5. adj. recklessly wasteful
6. adj. unrestrained by convention or morality
7. n. a dissolute man in fashionable society
8. n. a recklessly extravagant consumer
9. 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden. Syn. -- Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift. To drive away; to overcome. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Harvey.
10. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; adissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.
11. j:100 n a dissolute man in fashionable society n a recklessly extravagant consumer s recklessly wasteful s unrestrained by convention or morality