English-Thai Dictionary

profligate

ADJ ผิดศีลธรรม  wicked pid-sin-la-tam

 

profligate

ADJ สุรุ่ยสุร่าย  dissolute wasteful su-rua-su-rai

 

profligate

N คนที่ ใช้จ่าย สุรุ่ยสุร่าย  kon-ti-chai-jai-su-rua-su-rai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROFLIGATE

a.[L. profligatus, profligo, to rout, to ruin; pro and fligo, to drive or dash. The word then signifies dashed, broken or ruined in morals. See Flog and Afflict. ] Abandoned to vice; lost to principle, virtue or decency; extremely vicious; shameless in wickedness; as a profligate man or wretch.
Next age will see
A race more profligate than we.
Made prostitute and profligate the muse,
Debas'd to each obscene and impious use.

 

PROFLIGATE

n.An abandoned man; a wretch who has lost all regard to good principles, virtue or decency. How could such a profligate as Antony, or a boy of eighteen like Octavius, ever dare to dream of giving law to such an empire?

 

PROFLIGATE

v.t.To drive away; a Latin signification. [Not used. ] 1. To overcome. [Not used. ]

 

PROFLIGATELY

adv. Without principle or shame. 1. In a course of extreme viciousness; as, to spend life profligately.

 

PROFLIGATENESS

n.The quality or state of being lost to virtue and decency. 1. An abandoned course of life; extreme viciousness; profligacy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PROFLIGATE

Prof "li *gate, a. Etym: [L. profligatus, p. p. of profligare to strike or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to fligere to strike. See Afflict. ]

 

1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs. ] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

 

2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.

 

Syn. -- Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned.

 

PROFLIGATE

PROFLIGATE Prof "li *gate, n.

 

Defn: An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony. " Swift.

 

PROFLIGATE

PROFLIGATE Prof "li *gate, v. t.

 

Defn: To drive away; to overcome.

 

Note: [A Latinism ] [Obs. ] Harvey.

 

PROFLIGATELY

PROFLIGATELY Prof "li *gate *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a profligate manner.

 

PROFLIGATENESS

PROFLIGATENESS Prof "li *gate *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

profligate

prof li gate |ˈpräfligət, -ləˌgāt ˈprɑfləɡət | ▶adjective recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources: profligate consumers of energy. • licentious; dissolute: he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle. ▶noun a licentious, dissolute person. DERIVATIVES prof li ga cy |ˈpräfligəsē |noun, prof li gate ly adverb ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘overthrown, routed ’): from Latin profligatus ‘dissolute, ’ past participle of profligare ‘overthrow, ruin, ’ from pro- ‘forward, down ’ + fligere ‘strike down. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

profligate

profligate |ˈprɒflɪgət | ▶adjective 1 recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources: profligate consumers of energy. 2 licentious; dissolute: he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle. ▶noun a licentious, dissolute person. DERIVATIVES profligacy |-gəsi |noun, profligately adverb ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘overthrown, routed ’): from Latin profligatus ‘dissolute ’, past participle of profligare ‘overthrow, ruin ’, from pro- ‘forward, down ’ + fligere ‘strike down ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

profligate

profligate adjective 1 profligate local authorities: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, prodigal. ANTONYMS thrifty, frugal. 2 a profligate lifestyle: dissolute, degenerate, dissipated, debauched, corrupt, depraved; promiscuous, loose, wanton, licentious, libertine, decadent, abandoned, fast; sybaritic, voluptuary. ANTONYMS moral, upright. ▶noun he was an out-and-out profligate: libertine, debauchee, degenerate, dissolute, roué, rake, sybarite, voluptuary.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

profligate

profligate adjective 1 profligate local authorities: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, prodigal, immoderate, excessive, thriftless, imprudent, reckless, irresponsible. ANTONYMS thrifty, frugal. 2 he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle: dissolute, degenerate, dissipated, debauched, corrupt, depraved, reprobate, unprincipled, immoral; promiscuous, loose, wanton, licentious, lascivious, lecherous, libertine, lewd, decadent, rakish, shameless, abandoned, unrestrained, fast; sybaritic, voluptuary. ANTONYMS moral, upright. ▶noun 1 an out-and-out profligate, darting from one partner to the next: libertine, debauchee, degenerate, reprobate, roué, lecher, rake, loose-liver, dissolute person; sybarite, voluptuary, sensualist; informal lech; dated rip. 2 he's a gambler and a drunkard —a profligate in every way: spendthrift, prodigal, squanderer; informal waster; archaic wastrel.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

profligate

prof li gate /prɑ́flɪɡət |prɔ́f -/形容詞 ｟かたく ｠1 【金などを 】浪費する «of » (↔careful ).2 非道徳的な ; 規律に反抗的な .名詞 C 浪費家, 放蕩 （ほうとう ）者 .