Synonyms for profligate
ˈprɒf lɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪtprof·li·gate

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1. profligate

   Synonyms:
   abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless

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1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, rouenoun

   a dissolute man in fashionable society

   Synonyms:
   rent, pitch, rakehell, parentage, blood line, snag, crosscurrent, lineage, roue, stock, rip, ancestry, stemma, descent, pedigree, riptide, line of descent, blood, tide rip, line, slant, squanderer, rake, origin, split, countercurrent, bloodline, tear, prodigal

   Antonyms:
   thrifty, moral

2. prodigal, profligate, squandereradjective

   a recklessly extravagant consumer

   Synonyms:
   rip, prodigal, squanderer, roue, blood, rakehell, rake

   Antonyms:
   moral, thrifty

3. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthriftadjective

   recklessly wasteful

   "prodigal in their expenditures"

   Synonyms:
   excessive, debauched, prodigal, libertine, degraded, riotous, dissolute, fast, dissipated, spendthrift, overweening, exuberant, degenerate, extravagant

   Antonyms:
   moral, thrifty

4. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fastadjective

   unrestrained by convention or morality

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

   Synonyms:
   luxuriant, loyal, sporting, quick, profuse, riotous, debauched, devalued, lush, extravagant, fast, dissolute, turbulent, libertine, truehearted, card-playing, disruptive, debased, tumultuous, betting, degraded, fast(a), flying, troubled, dissipated, exuberant, spendthrift, degenerate, immobile, prodigal, firm

   Antonyms:
   thrifty, moral

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1. profligateadjective

   Synonyms:
   depraved, corrupt, dissolute, corrupted, very wicked, graceless, very vicious, shameless, abandoned

2. profligatenoun

   Synonyms:
   debauchee, rake, libertine, man of pleasure

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1. List of paraphrases for "profligate":

   wasteful, lavish

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How to use profligate in a sentence?

1. Justice Joseph Story:

   Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

2. Ryan Pack:

   War is such a profligate activity.