mid 16th cent. (in the sense overthrown, routed): from Latin profligatusdissolute, past participle of profligareoverthrow, ruin, from pro-forward, down + fligerestrike down
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noun
1.a dissolute man in fashionable society
2.a recklessly extravagant consumer
3.recklessly wasteful;
prodigal in their expenditures
4.unrestrained by convention or morality;
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
-profligate
1 . 放荡的
profligacy 放荡profligate放荡的profound 深刻的
2 . 浪费的
bureaucracy(官僚主义)andprofligate(浪费的)government borrowing maydouse(浇灭)growth in the years