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profligate 音标拼音: [pr'ɔflɪg,et] a. 放荡的,不检点的,浪费的
n. 放荡者,享乐者 放荡的,不检点的,浪费的放荡者,享乐者 profligate adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [synonym: {extravagant}, {prodigal}, {profligate}, {spendthrift}] 2: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [synonym: {debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {dissolute}, {libertine}, {profligate}, {riotous}, {fast}] n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [synonym: {rake}, {rakehell}, {profligate}, {rip}, {blood}, {roue}] 2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [synonym: {prodigal}, {profligate}, {squanderer}] 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}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The foe is profligate, and run. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. [1913 Webster] A race more profligate than we. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster] Made prostitute and profligate muse. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Syn: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See {Abandoned}. [1913 Webster] Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." --Swift. [1913 Webster] Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, v. t. To drive away; to overcome. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey. [1913 Webster] 124 Moby Thesaurus words for "profligate":
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