He was a drunkard and a profligate.
Source: tatoeba (10651200)
Profligate
//ˈpɹɒflɪɡət//
Synonyms for "profligate" (184 found)
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Closest matches (37)
degenerateextravagantimmoralprodigalrakewastefulwastrelabandonedbacksliderbad eggbad lotblack sheepcarnalcasanovacontaminatedcorruptcorrupteddebaseddebaucheddebauchee
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Noun(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(5 words)
Strong matches (55)
Adjective(6 words)
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (92)
pervertedphilandererpimppollutedpound-foolishprofusepromiscuousrakehellrakehellishrakehellyrakishrecidivistrecklessrecreantreprobateriprottenrouerounderscandalous
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scapegraceself-indulgentsensualsensualistshamelesssinfulsinnerskirt chasersodomitesorry lotspendspenderspendthriftsquanderersquanderingsteeped in iniquityswingersybaritesybaritictaintedtrollopunbridledunprincipledunrestrainedvice-corruptedviciousvillainousvitiatedvoluptuaryvoluptuouswalking phalluswantonwarpedwasterwastethriftwhorewhoremongerwickedwildwolfwoman chaserwomanizer
Adjective(9 words)
Adjective(3 words)
Related word relations
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4 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἄσωτος adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- ἄσωτος adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
Armenian
1 entries- անառակ adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bədxərc adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- israfcıl adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Bulgarian
4 entries- развратен adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- разпуснат adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- разточителен adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- прахосник noun (overly wasteful or extravagant individual)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 奢靡 adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- 揮霍 /挥霍 adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- 揮霍無度 /挥霍无度 adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- 淫靡 adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
Dutch
2 entries- losbandig adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- verkwistend adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Finnish
2 entries- paheellinen adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- tuhlaavainen adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
French
1 entries- dépensier adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Galician
4 entries- disoluto adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- gastador adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- libertino adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- licencioso adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
German
1 entries- verschwenderisch adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Hungarian
3 entries- erkölcstelen adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- feslett adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- tékozló adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Indonesian
1 entries- berfoya-foya adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Italian
2 entries- dissoluto adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- dissoluto adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
Māori
3 entries- ngutuhore adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- rukeruke adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- whiuwhiu adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Polish
1 entries- rozrzutny adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Russian
4 entries- неэконо́мный adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- развра́тный adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- распу́тный adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
- расточи́тельный adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
Spanish
2 entries- disoluto adj (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly)
- inmoral adj (immoral; abandoned to vice)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
City were profligate in front of goal, wasting chance after chance.
Source: tatoeba (10808898)
Tom is a careless profligate.
Source: tatoeba (11950507)
[H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!
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