prodigal
Meanings
Plural: prodigals
Noun
- a recklessly extravagant consumer
- A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.
Adjective Satellite
- recklessly wasteful
- "prodigal in their expenditures"
Adj
- Wastefully extravagant.
- Yielding profusely, lavish.
- Profuse, lavishly abundant.
- Behaving as a prodigal son:
- Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal.
- Behaving as a prodigal son:
- Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French prodigal, from Late Latin prōdigālis (“wasteful”), from Latin prōdigus (“wasteful, lavish, prodigal”), from prōdigō (“to consume, squander, drive forth”), from prōd- [from prō (“before, forward”)] + agō (“to drive”). Also see prodigy.
Synonyms
abounding, abundant, ample, aplenty, big spender, bountiful, brimming, copious, dingthrift, excessive, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, free, galore, generous, immoderate, improvident, imprudent, inordinate, intemperate, largifical, largifluous, lavish, liberal, neve, nimious, numerous, obscene, overflowing, overmuch, overspender, overweening, plenteous, plentevous, plentiful, prodigal, profligate, profluent, profuse, prolific, reckless, saprophage, scattergood, slipstring, slipthrift, sparkler, spend-all, spendthrift, splurge, splurger, squanderer, squandering, superabundant, teeming, uberous, undue, uneconomical, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unthrift, unthrifty, wanton, wasteful, wastegood, waster, wastethrift, wastrel
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
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