"profligate" in the noun sense
1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue
a dissolute man in fashionable society
2. prodigal, profligate, squanderer
a recklessly extravagant consumer
"profligate" in the adjective sense
1. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift
recklessly wasteful
"prodigal in their expenditures"
2. 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"
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