prof·li·gate (prŏf'lĭ-gĭt, -gāt') pronunciation
adj.
1. Given over to dissipation; dissolute.
2. Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant.
n.
A profligate person; a wastrel.
[Latin prōflīgātus, past participle of prōflīgāre, to ruin, cast down : prō-, forward; see pro–1 + -flīgāre, intensive of flīgere, to strike down.]
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