Usually means: Recklessly wasteful; extravagantly spendthrift.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. profligate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. profligate: Merriam-Webster
  3. profligate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. profligate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. profligate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. profligate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Profligate, profligate: Wordnik
  8. profligate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. profligate: Wiktionary
  10. profligate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. profligate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. profligate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Profligate, profligate: Dictionary.com
  14. profligate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. profligate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Profligate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Profligate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. profligate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. profligate: Rhymezone
  20. profligate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. profligate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. profligate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. profligate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. profligate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. profligate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profligate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profligate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profligate: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See profligately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
adjective:  Immoral; abandoned to vice.
adjective:  (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
noun:  An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
noun:  An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
verb:  (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

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