Profligate: meaning, pronunciation and examples
Profligate adjective. Recklessly wasteful with money or resources.
How to say it
PROF-lih-gut/ˈprɒflɪɡət/
3 syllables, stressed on the first (PROF).
Meanings
- Recklessly wasteful with money or resources.
- Leading a wildly self-indulgent and immoral life.
Profligate in a sentence
The profligate council spent more on its own offices than on its schools.
Profligate use of water during the drought brought the golf course a heavy fine.
Similar and opposite
Similar:
- wasteful
- extravagant
- spendthrift
- prodigal
Opposite:
- thrifty
- frugal
- parsimonious
Where profligate comes from
From Latin profligare, to strike down or ruin.
Test yourself
Which word fills the gap?
_____ use of water during the drought brought the golf course a heavy fine.
- sumptuary
- profligate
- affluent
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profligate: Profligate use of water during the drought brought the golf course a heavy fine.