资料来源 : pyDict

放荡的,不检点的,浪费的放荡者,享乐者

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, n.
   An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a
   dissolute person. ``Such a profligate as Antony.'' --Swift.

Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, v. t.
   To drive away; to overcome.

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

Profligate \Prof"li*gate\, a. [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}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

profligate
     adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn:
            {extravagant}, {prodigal}, {spendthrift}]
     2: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
        debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
        and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched},
         {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {dissolute}, {libertine},
         {riotous}, {fast}]

profligate
     n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: {rake}, {rip},
          {blood}, {roue}]
     2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: {prodigal}, {squanderer}]