profligate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

   “[H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!”

2. sıfat Immoral; abandoned to vice.

   “Made prostitute and profligate the muse.”

3. sıfat Overthrown, ruined.

   “The foe is profligate, and run.”

4. isim An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

   “Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?”

5. isim An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

   “He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.”

6. fiil To drive away; to overcome.

   “Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;”

7. fiil Obsolete form of profligated (past participle of profligate): profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.

   “The Canon laws […] with their Author, are profligate out of this realm.”