Profligate

Profligate Definition

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful, especially in the use of money or resources.

More common in formal, political, and economic writing than in everyday speech.

Profligate is an adjective.

Profligate has high GRE relevance.

Profligate appears in GregMat vocabulary.

Profligate Synonyms

extravagant , lavish , reckless , spendthrift , wasteful

How To Use Profligate In A Sentence

1. The administration was criticized for its profligate spending on unnecessary projects.
2. Years of profligate borrowing left the company burdened with debt.
3. The committee proposed reforms to curb the government's profligate use of public funds.