prodigal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Wastefully extravagant.

   “He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.”

2. sıfat Yielding profusely, lavish.

   “She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.”

3. sıfat Profuse, lavishly abundant.

   “Goe binde thou vp vond dangling Apricocks, / Which like vnruly Children, make their Syre / Stoupe with oppreſſion of their prodigall weight:”

4. sıfat Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal.
5. sıfat Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment.

   “Simon Hart of the Daily Telegraph has tweeted that the prodigal triple-jumper has come home, in preparation for tomorrow's qualification round.”

6. isim A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.

   “Now thinkes he that her husbands ſhallow tongue, / The niggard prodigall that praiſde her ſo: / In that high task hath done her Beauty wrong.”