profligate是什么意思？

profligate

英[ˈprɒflɪgət] 美[ˈprɑflɪgət]

• adj. 挥霍的，浪费的，放荡的，行为不检点的；
• n. 放荡的人，浪子，肆意挥霍者；

名词：profligacy;

例句

• a profligate person 放荡的人
• Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate. 如此看来,危机对节俭者的惩罚,要比对恣意挥霍者更为严厉.
• He is a careless profligate. 他是个粗枝大叶的浪荡子.
• This young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water. 这个青年完全有可能成为十足的浪子.
• Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy. 他们挥霍的生活方式导致的破产.
• ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world. 世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  挥霍的；浪费的
  Someone who is profligate spends too much money or uses too much of something.
  例句
  ...the most profligate consumer of energy in the world. 世界上能源挥霍最严重的国家

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  挥霍的,浪费的
  Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy. 他们挥霍的生活方式导致的破产。
  放荡的,行为不检点的
  a profligate person 放荡的人

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
  2. a recklessly extravagant consumer
• Adjective
  1. recklessly wasteful;
  "prodigal in their expenditures"
  2. unrestrained by convention or morality;
  "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society""deplorably dissipated and degraded""riotous living""fast women"