different between lecherous vs profligate
lecherous
English
Etymology
From Middle English lecherous, licherous, from Old French *lecherous (attested in Old French lecherousement (“lecherously”)), from Old French lecherie, licherie (“gluttony, sensuality, lewdness, lechery”), from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekk?n (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”), equivalent to lecher +? -ous. More at lick.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?t????s/
Adjective
lecherous (comparative more lecherous, superlative most lecherous)
- Given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery.
Derived terms
- lecherously
- lecherousness
Translations
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profligate
English
Etymology
From Latin pr?fl?g?tus (“wretched, abandoned”), participle of pr?fl?g? (“strike down, cast down”), from pro (“forward”) + fligere (“to strike, dash”).
Pronunciation
- (adjective, noun, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??fl???t/
- (adjective, noun, US) enPR: pr??fl?g?t, IPA(key): /?p???fl???t/
- (adjective, noun)
- (verb, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??fl??e?t/
- (verb, US) enPR: pr??fl?g?t, IPA(key): /?p???fl??e?t/
- (verb)
Adjective
profligate (comparative more profligate, superlative most profligate)
- Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
- Synonyms: extravagant, wasteful, prodigal; see also Thesaurus:prodigal
- 2013, Ben Smith, "[1]", BBC Sport, 19 October 2013:
- Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate, United were far more ruthless.
- Immoral; abandoned to vice.
- Synonyms: immoral, licentious
- 1685, John Dryden, To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
- Made prostitute and profligate the muse.
- (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
Derived terms
- profligateness
Translations
Noun
profligate (plural profligates)
- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
- An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
- Synonyms: wastrel; see also Thesaurus:spendthrift, Thesaurus:prodigal
Translations
Verb
profligate (third-person singular simple present profligates, present participle profligating, simple past and past participle profligated)
- (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
- 1840, Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce, page 157:
- Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;
- 1840, Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce, page 157:
Related terms
- profligacy
- profligately
- profligateness
- profligation
Further reading
- profligate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- profligate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Adjective
pr?fl?g?te
- vocative masculine singular of pr?fl?g?tus
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