profligate
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a dissolute man in fashionable society
Types & categories
- rounder hypernym
Related & opposite
- libertine derivation
Sense 2 adjective
recklessly wasteful
prodigal in their expenditures
Related & opposite
- highlife derivation
- prodigality derivation
- prodigal derivation
- wasteful similar to
Sense 3 noun
a recklessly extravagant consumer
Types & categories
- consumer hypernym
- spendthrift hyponym
- waster hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 adjective
unrestrained by convention or morality
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | libertine |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | rounder |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | highlife |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prodigality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prodigal |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | wasteful |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ware |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | waste |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | prodigal |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | consumer |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | spendthrift |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | waster |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | debauch |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | self-gratification |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rounder |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pervert |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rip |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | immoral |