Word Meanings - PROFLIGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or
Additional info about word: PROFLIGATE
or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden. Syn. -- Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFLIGATE)
- Abandoned
- Profligate
- wicked
- vicious
- unprincipled
- reprobate
- incorrigible
- sinful
- graceless
- demoralized
- dissolute
- depraved
- bad
- licentious
- corrupt
- Corrupt
- Defiled
- polluted
- vitiated
- decayed
- putrid
- rotten
- infected
- tainted
- profligate
- contaminated
- Dissolute
- loose
- wanton
- Licentious
- Voluptuous
- rakish
- debauched
- self-indulgent
- lax
- unbridled
- Vicious
- faulty
- defective
- morbid
- peccant
- debased
- unruly
- impure
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROFLIGATE)
Related words: (words related to PROFLIGATE)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - MORBIDEZZA
Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - DECAY
To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - RAKISH
Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay. - VITIATE
1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - INFECTIOUSLY
In an infectious manner. Shak. - CORRUPTIBLE
1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. - DEBASINGLY
In a manner to debase. - DEBAUCHMENT
The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. - INCORRIGIBLENESS
Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - DEFILADE
To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point. - DISSOLUTE
1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed; - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - REINFECT
To infect again. - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline - BRUNSWICK GREEN
An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. - BAILIWICK
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority. - DISINFECT
To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure. - TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
A tetrahexahedron. - INCORRECT
1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not