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Prodigal

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Noun

1. prodigal, profligate, squanderer

a recklessly extravagant consumer

Adjective

2. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift

recklessly wasteful

Example Sentences:
'prodigal in their expenditures'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Prodigal

see synonyms of prodigal
adjective
1. 
recklessly wasteful or extravagant, as in disposing of goods or money
2. 
lavish in giving or yielding
prodigal of compliments
noun
3. 
a person who spends lavishly or squanders money

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Prodigal

see synonyms of prodigal
adjective
1. 
exceedingly or recklessly wasteful
2. 
extremely generous; lavish
prodigal with one's praise
3. 
extremely abundant; profuse
noun
4. 
a person who wastes his means; spendthrift

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Prodigal

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adj.
1. Rashly or wastefully extravagant: prodigal expenditures on unneeded weaponry; a prodigal nephew who squandered his inheritance.
2. Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse: "the infinite number of organic beings with which the sea of the tropics, so prodigal of life, teems" (Charles Darwin). See Synonyms at profuse.
n.
One who is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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