different between profligate vs reprobate

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)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.

Derived terms

• profligateness

Translations

Noun

profligate (plural profligates)

1. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
2. 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)

1. (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 ;

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

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?fl?g?tus

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin reprobatus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), past participle of reprobare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??b?t/

Adjective

reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.

   • Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

   The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

Translations

Noun

reprobate (plural reprobates)

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
2. An individual with low morals or principles.
   • c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana

     I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1

     "Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

Related terms

• depraved

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin reprobare, reprobatus. Doublet of reprove.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??be?t/

Verb

reprobate (third-person singular simple present reprobates, present participle reprobating, simple past and past participle reprobated)

1. To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
2. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
3. To refuse, set aside.

Translations

Anagrams

• perborate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.pro?ba?.te/, [r?p???bä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.pro?ba.te/, [r?p???b??t??]

Verb

reprob?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of reprob?