/
ˈprɒflɪgət/
adj.
recklessly extravagant or wasteful.
▸licentious; dissolute.
n.
a profligate person.
Derivative
- profligacy n.
- profligately adv.
Etymology
C16: from L. profligatus ‘dissolute’, past part. of profligare ‘overthrow, ruin’, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + fligere ‘strike down’.
