Antonyms for profligate
ˈprɒf lɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪtprof·li·gate

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1. profligate

   Synonyms:
   abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless

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1. rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, rouenoun

   a dissolute man in fashionable society

   Antonyms:
   thrifty, moral

   Synonyms:
   rent, pitch, rakehell, parentage, blood line, snag, crosscurrent, lineage, roue, stock, rip, ancestry, stemma, descent, pedigree, riptide, line of descent, blood, tide rip, line, slant, squanderer, rake, origin, split, countercurrent, bloodline, tear, prodigal

2. prodigal, profligate, squandereradjective

   a recklessly extravagant consumer

   Antonyms:
   moral, thrifty

   Synonyms:
   rip, prodigal, squanderer, roue, blood, rakehell, rake

3. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthriftadjective

   recklessly wasteful

   "prodigal in their expenditures"

   Antonyms:
   moral, thrifty

   Synonyms:
   excessive, debauched, prodigal, libertine, degraded, riotous, dissolute, fast, dissipated, spendthrift, overweening, exuberant, degenerate, extravagant

4. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fastadjective

   unrestrained by convention or morality

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

   Antonyms:
   thrifty, moral

   Synonyms:
   luxuriant, loyal, sporting, quick, profuse, riotous, debauched, devalued, lush, extravagant, fast, dissolute, turbulent, libertine, truehearted, card-playing, disruptive, debased, tumultuous, betting, degraded, fast(a), flying, troubled, dissipated, exuberant, spendthrift, degenerate, immobile, prodigal, firm

How to use profligate in a sentence?

1. Justice Joseph Story:

   Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

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