profligate

/pɹˈɔflɪɡˌeɪt/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. recklessly wasteful
   “prodigal in their expenditures”
2. unrestrained by convention or morality
   “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”

noun

1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
2. a recklessly extravagant consumer

Synonyms for profligate

• extravagant
• prodigal
• spendthrift
• wasteful
• debauched
• degenerate
• degraded
• dissipated
• dissolute
• libertine
• riotous
• fast
• immoral
• rake
• rakehell
• rip
• blood
• roue
• squanderer

Words that rhyme with profligate

• straight
• separate
• plate
• mate
• date
• concentrate
• late
• state
• regenerate
• translate
• weight
• conjugate
• foliate
• grate
• initiate
• propagate
• accommodate
• articulate
• communicate
• eliminate
• gate
• great
• penetrate
• percolate
• precipitate
• rate
• slate
• stimulate
• subordinate
• suffocate