a. | 1. | |
1. | Overthrown; beaten; conquered. | |
2. | Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; | |
n. | 1. | An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. |
v. t. | 1. | To drive away; to overcome. |
Noun | 1. | profligate - a dissolute man in fashionable society |
2. | profligate - a recklessly extravagant consumer Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer | |
Adj. | 1. | profligate - recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" |
2. | profligate - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" |