Profligate
['prɒflɪgət] or [prɔflɪɡət]
Definition
(a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
(a.) Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
(n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
(v. t.) To drive away; to overcome.
Editor: Natasha
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Depraved, corrupt, dissolute, corrupted, very wicked, graceless, very vicious, shameless, abandoned.
n. Debauchee, rake, libertine, man of pleasure.
Editor: Megan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless,[SeeABANDONED]
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Definition
adj. abandoned to vice: without virtue or decency: dissolute: prodigal: (obs.) overthrown defeated.—n. one leading a profligate life: one shamelessly vicious: an abandoned person.—ns. Prof′ligacy Prof′ligateness state or quality of being profligate: a vicious course of life.—adv. Prof′ligately.
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Examples
- Thou hast turned out a most cold-blooded profligate, as I am told: but it might not have been thus if we had married. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What if he be a profligate debauchee, and would rather receive harm than benefit from large possessions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But let me tell you one thing, Aunt: Mr. Wildeve is not a profligate man, any more than I am an improper woman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is on record that he got five pounds from the close-fisted old lady Queen Charlotte, and two guineas from the royal profligate her eldest son. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her Grace, in her infinite condescension, then goes on to state that the said Harriette Wilson is the lowest and most profligate creature alive. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Parisienne, on the other hand, was prodigal and profligate (in disposition, that is: as to action, I do not know). Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The man would be half a poet, if he were not wholly a maniac; and perhaps a prophet, if he were not a profligate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Besides, he's such an infernal character--he's a gambler--he's a drunkard--he's a profligate in every way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But his father--and his uncle--were the most profligate coachmen that ever sat upon a box. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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