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Profligate

Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

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Similar meaning 4

Immoral 84% connected

Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licenti…

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Immoral 84% connected

Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licenti…

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Wasteful 84% connected

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

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Wasteful 84% connected

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

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Broader term 4

Consumer 76% connected

One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

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Debauchee 76% connected

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

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Libertine 76% connected

A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

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Rounder 76% connected

One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.

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Narrower term 5

Scattergood 76% connected

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

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Spender 76% connected

One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

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Spendthrift 76% connected

One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.

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Waster 76% connected

One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.

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Wastrel 76% connected

Any waste thing or substance

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Debauchee 74% connected

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

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Debauchee 74% connected

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

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Synonym 17

Blood 92% connected

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

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Debauched 92% connected

of Debauch

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Degenerate 92% connected

Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

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Degraded 92% connected

of Degrade

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Dissipated 92% connected

of Dissipate

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Dissolute 92% connected

With nerves unstrung; weak.

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Extravagant 92% connected

Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.

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Fast 92% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Libertine 92% connected

A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prodigal 92% connected

Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rake 92% connected

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rakehell 92% connected

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.

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Riotous 92% connected

Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rip 92% connected

A wicker fish basket.

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Roue 92% connected

One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

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Spendthrift 92% connected

One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squanderer 92% connected

One who squanders.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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