Add to my words Add to my words Pronounce Profligates Pronounce Profligates Profligates – definitions in English dictionary A licentious, dissolute person.
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He is a drunkard and a profligate
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
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Profligate consumers of energy
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He succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle
Profligates translation into English Profligates: translate from English into Chinese Profligates: translate from English into Dutch Profligates: translate from English into French Débauchés, Débauché, Libertin
Profligates: translate from English into German Ausschweifungen, Verschwender, Leichtfuß, Liederjan
Profligates: translate from English into Hindi Profligates: translate from English into Italian Profligates: translate from English into Korean Profligates: translate from English into Russian Распутничает, Распутник, Расточитель
Profligates: translate from English into Spanish Libertinos, Libertino, Derrochador, Disoluto
Word origin
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘overthrown, routed’): from Latin profligatus ‘dissolute’, past participle of profligare ‘overthrow, ruin’, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + fligere ‘strike down’.
Profligates – similar words
In a way that wastes money, or uses something in a way that wastes it and is not wise
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We did not spend profligately when we made a profit, so we did not have to cut jobs when the econom…
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
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Profligate consumers of energy
A licentious, dissolute person.
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He is a drunkard and a profligate
Profligates synonims
A person given to excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.
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Within a few years, carbonneau, ‘a debauchee and libertine’ had frittered away her money on dubious…
A debauched person (= one who drinks too much alcohol, takes drugs, shows bad sexual behaviour, etc.)
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He gave a convincing stage performance as the unpleasant young debauchee., he was condemned as a 's…
Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
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A degenerate form of a higher civilization
An immoral or corrupt person.
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Get out of my house, you degenerate!
Decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.
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The quality of life had degenerated
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He was not the booze-swilling lech that he appeared to be
Act in a lecherous or lustful manner.
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Businessmen leching after bimbos
Informal for
lecher disapproving
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A vile drunken lecher
A person, especially a man, who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without regard to moral principles.
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His image as an unbridled libertine is a total myth
Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures.
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His more libertine impulses
A person, usually a man, who has few moral principles and has sexual relationships with many people
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She considers him an arrogant, dandified libertine., the infamous libertine casanova was more compl…
An implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
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Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.
Draw together with a rake or similar implement.
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I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass
A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.
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A merry restoration rake
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He had to present himself as more of a lovable reprobate than a spirit of corruption
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Reprobate behaviour
Express or feel disapproval of.
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His neighbours reprobated his method of proceeding
Tear or pull (something) quickly or forcibly away from something or someone.
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A fan tried to rip his trousers off during a show
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There was a rip in his sweatshirt
A stretch of fast-flowing and rough water in the sea or in a river, caused by the meeting of currents.
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The onslaught of the trojan army is ‘charging in as a heavy surf roars in against the rip at a rive…
A debauched man, especially an elderly one.
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He had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of london and paris
A person devoted to physical, especially sexual, pleasure.
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A dedicated sensualist
A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury.
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I've encountered people who lived as self-involved sybarites for years but assumed a new christian …
A person who loves expensive things and pleasure
A person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.
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The novel's italians are listless voluptuaries, its germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are…
Concerned with or characterized by luxury and sensual pleasure.
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A voluptuary decade when high living was in style
