profligate


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
profligate /ˈprɒflɪgət/
adjective recklessly extravagant or wasteful.

■ licentious; dissolute.

noun a profligate person.
– derivatives
profligacy noun,
profligately adverb.
– origin C16: from L. profligatus ‘dissolute’, past part. of profligare ‘overthrow, ruin’, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + fligere ‘strike down’.
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