What does "profligate" mean?
Profligate: 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. See Abandoned.
Additional senses
- 2.An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.
- 3.To drive away; to overcome. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Harvey.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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