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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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sumptuous
English
Etymology
From French somptueux, from Latin sumptu?sus, from s?mptus (“cost, charge, expense”), from sum? (I take) +? -tus (noun formation suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?mpt??u?s/
Adjective
sumptuous (comparative more sumptuous, superlative most sumptuous)
- Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal
- To make him loathe his vegetable meal;
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:
Synonyms
- lavish
Derived terms
- sumption
- sumptuary
- sumptuousness
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