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profligate
(encz) | profligate,nestydatý adj: Michal Ambrož |
profligate
(encz) | profligate,rozmařilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Profligate
(gcide) | Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, a. [L. profligatus, p. p. of
profligare to strike or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro
before + a word akin to fligere to strike. See Afflict.]
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1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.]
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The foe is profligate, and run. --Hudibras.
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2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or
decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious;
dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
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A race more profligate than we. --Roscommon.
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Made prostitute and profligate muse. --Dryden.
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Syn: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved;
vicious; wicked. See Abandoned.
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Profligate
(gcide) | Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, n.
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a
dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." --Swift.
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Profligate
(gcide) | Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, v. t.
To drive away; to overcome.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey.
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profligate
(wn) | profligate
adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
[syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate,
spendthrift]
2: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and
degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched,
degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute,
libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]
n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake,
rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: prodigal,
profligate, squanderer] |
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profligate
(encz) | profligate,nestydatý adj: Michal Ambrožprofligate,rozmařilý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
profligately
(encz) | profligately,marnotratně adv: Zdeněk Brožprofligately,rozmařile adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Profligately
(gcide) | Profligately \Prof"li*gate*ly\, adv.
In a profligate manner.
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Profligateness
(gcide) | Profligateness \Prof"li*gate*ness\, n.
The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life;
profligacy.
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profligate
(wn) | profligate
adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
[syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate,
spendthrift]
2: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and
degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched,
degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute,
libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]
n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake,
rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: prodigal,
profligate, squanderer] |
profligately
(wn) | profligately
adv 1: in a dissolute way [syn: profligately, dissolutely] |
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