profligacy
Shameless financial excess
Profligacy is reckless extravagance or wastefulness, especially with money: The company's profligacy led to bankruptcy.
The word also carries older moral weight, suggesting dissolute or debauched living—squandering not just wealth but character.
A profligate person indulges without restraint or regard for consequences.
Reckless depletion of resources
- dissipationGradual loss or scattering
- overspendingExceeding one's budget
- misuseImproper application
- overconsumptionExcessive use of resources
depletion · drain · inefficiency · mismanagement · frittering · improvidence · heedlessness · reckless spending
Gradual loss or scattering
- libertinismUnrestrained indulgence in pleasure
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
immorality · vice · corruption · hedonism · sensuality · promiscuity · degeneracy · depravity
Excessive richness or abundance
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- splurgeSpend freely, impulsively
ostentation · excess · overindulgence · decadence · indulgence · grandeur · magnificence · splendor
One who wastes wealth
- wastrelReckless spender, idle person
- big spenderOne who splurges freely
- high rollerMajor casino spender
- free spenderOne who parts easily with money
splurger · spender · shopaholic · libertine · rake · roué · bon vivant
squandering
Reckless depletion of resources
- dissipationGradual loss or scattering
- overspendingExceeding one's budget
- misuseImproper application
overconsumption · depletion · drain · inefficiency · mismanagement · frittering · improvidence · heedlessness · reckless spending · financial ruin
dissipation
Gradual loss or scattering
- libertinismUnrestrained indulgence in pleasure
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
decadence · immorality · vice · corruption · hedonism · sensuality · promiscuity · degeneracy · depravity · turpitude
lavishness
Excessive richness or abundance
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
splurge · ostentation · excess · overindulgence · decadence · indulgence · grandeur · magnificence · splendor · exorbitance
squanderer
One who wastes wealth
- wastrelReckless spender, idle person
- big spenderOne who splurges freely
- high rollerMajor casino spender
free spender · splurger · spender · shopaholic · libertine · rake · roué · bon vivant
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- wastefulnesswaste, squandering, extravagance, dissipation, overspending
- decadencedecadence, decay, lavishness, aestheticism, dandyism
- immoralityvice, wickedness, depravity, sinfulness, iniquity
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- excessesoverindulgence, immoderation, intemperance, extravagance, gluttony
profligacythrift
Careful use of resources
frugality · thriftiness · parsimony · economy · austerity
profligacyvirtue
Moral goodness or merit
morality · rectitude · uprightness · righteousness · probity