PRODIGAL meaning: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful spender

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Wastefully extravagant.
▸ adjective:  (often followed by of or with) Yielding profusely, lavish.
▸ adjective:  Profuse, lavishly abundant.
▸ adjective:  (by allusion to the New Testament story commonly called "The Parable of the Prodigal Son", Luke 15:11–32) Behaving as a prodigal son:
▸ adjective:  Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal.
▸ adjective:  Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment.
▸ noun:  A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.

Opposite:

frugal, stingy, miserly

Types:

wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, profligate, more...

Phrases:

prodigal son, prodigal sons, prodigal daughter, prodigal daughters, husks of the prodigal son, more...

Adjectives:

young, poor, repentant, penitent, unhappy, careless, thriftless, greatest, runaway, dear, reckless

Colors:

gold, silver, crimson, emerald, sapphire, ruby, amethyst, opal, jade, turquoise

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