profligate
adjective
[ ˈprɒflɪɡət ]
• recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
• "profligate consumers of energy"
Similar:
wasteful,
extravagant,
spendthrift,
improvident,
prodigal,
immoderate,
excessive,
thriftless,
imprudent,
reckless,
irresponsible,
• licentious; dissolute.
• "he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle"
Similar:
dissolute,
degenerate,
dissipated,
debauched,
corrupt,
depraved,
reprobate,
unprincipled,
immoral,
promiscuous,
loose,
wanton,
licentious,
lascivious,
lecherous,
libertine,
lewd,
decadent,
rakish,
shameless,
abandoned,
unrestrained,
fast,
fast-living,
sybaritic,
voluptuary,
profligate
noun
• a licentious, dissolute person.
• "he is a drunkard and a profligate"
Similar:
libertine,
debauchee,
degenerate,
reprobate,
roué,
lecher,
rake,
loose-liver,
dissolute person,
sybarite,
voluptuary,
sensualist,
lech,
rip,
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’.
