profligate

a. 放荡的, 不检点的, 浪费的 n. 放荡者, 享乐者

发音

UK /ˈpɹɒflɪɡeɪt/
UK /ˈpɹɒflɪɡət/
US /ˈpɹɑːflɪɡeɪt/
US /ˈpɹɑːflɪɡət/

词形变化

profligates 复数 profligates profligated profligates 三单 profligating profligating 现在分词 profligated 过去式 profligated 过去分词 more profligate 比较级 most profligate 最高级

别名

prolifigate

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

  2. 2.

    An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

v.
  1. 1.

    To drive away; to overcome.

    废旧
adj.
  1. 1.

    Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

    奢靡

    挥霍

    挥霍无度

  2. 2.

    Immoral; abandoned to vice.

    淫靡

    荒淫

  3. 3.

    Profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.

  4. 4.

    Overthrown, ruined.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

blood rip rake prodigal rakehell roue squanderer

上位词 4

consumer libertine rounder debauchee

下位词 6

spender wastrel scattergood spend-all spendthrift waster
形容词

同义词 10

fast degenerate extravagant prodigal degraded libertine dissipated debauched riotous dissolute

近义相关 2

immoral wasteful

词源

The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3)), from prō- (“forward”) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

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