profligate

About 0.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
2. adjective Immoral; abandoned to vice.
3. adjective Overthrown, ruined.
4. noun An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
5. noun An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
6. verb To drive away; to overcome.
7. verb Obsolete form of profligated (past participle of profligate): profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.

Similar words

spendthrift prodigal extravagant wasteful dissolute dissipated debauched riotous fast degenerate

Often followed by

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Word family

profligately profligates