profligate

Shamelessly extravagant person

Profligate describes reckless extravagance or moral abandon.

A profligate spender wastes money without restraint: profligate spending on luxury goods.

The word extends to any wasteful excess: profligate use of natural resources.

As a noun, a profligate is a dissolute person given to vice or extravagance.

The tone is disapproving—profligate suggests not just excess but irresponsibility.

immoral

debauched

Corrupted by indulgence

licentiousSexually unrestrained behavior
libertineOne lacking moral restraint
depravedMorally corrupt, perverse

decadent · rakish · lewd · corrupt · shameless · sinful · wanton · abandoned · loose · promiscuous

extravagant

lavish

Abundant beyond necessity

squanderingReckless depletion of resources
immoderateBeyond reasonable bounds
excessiveSurpassing reasonable bounds

unthrifty · improvident · reckless · imprudent · opulent · sumptuous · ostentatious · overindulgent · exorbitant · splurging

squanderer

waster

One who uses recklessly

wastrelReckless spender, idle person
dissipaterOne who disperses
splurgerOne who spends extravagantly

Categories

indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
pleasure seekershedonist, hedonists, pleasure seeker, pleasure seekers, pleasure-seeker
spendersoverspender, big spender, free spender, reckless spender, splurger
recklessreckless, careless, rash, heedless, imprudent
risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive

Opposites

financial prudence

profligatefrugal

Sparing with resources

thrifty · economical · parsimonious · penny-pinching · miserly

moral conduct

profligatevirtuous

Morally excellent, principled

upright · moral · righteous · chaste · temperate

Family

profligacy, profligates, profligately

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