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)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

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