profligate

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Adjective profligate has 2 senses

extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift - recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
Antonym: thrifty (indirect, via wasteful)
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
Antonym: moral (indirect, via immoral, amoral)
Antonyms: amoral, unmoral (indirect, via moral, immoral)

Noun profligate has 2 senses

rake, profligate, rip, blood, roue - a dissolute man in fashionable society
--₁ is a kind of libertine, debauchee, rounder
prodigal, profligate, squanderer - a recklessly extravagant consumer
--₂ is a kind of consumer
--₂ has particulars:
spendthrift, spend-all, spender, scattergood; wastrel, waster

Profligate

Definition:

adjective/noun: recklessly wasteful or extravagant in the use of resources or money; a person who is extravagant in their spending or behavior

Examples:

Adjective:

1. John's profligate spending habits quickly depleted his savings.

2. The company's profligate use of paper led to excessive waste.

Noun:

1. The profligate squandered all his inheritance on luxurious vacations.

2. She was known as a profligate, constantly indulging in lavish parties and expensive designer clothes.