Wordiyoprofligate
🇬🇧 UK/'prɒfligit/🇺🇸 US
GREC2
Definitions
adj.
Recklessly wasteful or extravagant; shamelessly immoral or dissolute.
挥霍无度的，放荡的，不检点的
n.
A person who is wildly extravagant or openly immoral.
挥霍者，放荡者
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedprobefore
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fligroot
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Common Collocations
- 1.profligate spending挥霍无度的开支
- 2.profligate lifestyle放荡的生活方式
- 3.[profligate use of resources]肆意浪费资源
- 4.profligate behavior不检点的行为
Example Sentences
- 1.
The profligate heir squandered his entire inheritance within a decade.
- 2.
Critics condemned the government's profligate spending on unnecessary projects.
- 3.
His profligate lifestyle eventually left him penniless and alone.