adj. 1 debauched, vice-ridden, immoral, unprincipled, sinful, shameless, evil, iniquitous, wicked, dissipative, dissolute, degenerate, loose, licentious, depraved, corrupt, promiscuous, lecherous, lascivious, lewd, indecent, perverted, carnal, libertine, wanton, unrestrained, erotic, sybaritic, voluptuous, sensual, wild, abandoned The duke suddenly gave up his profligate life and became a monk 2 extravagant, prodigal, wasteful, reckless, squandering, improvident, spendthrift, immoderate, excessive As the family fortunes waned, my aunt had to curb her profligate ways
n. 3 debauchee, sinner, degenerate, pervert, sodomite, reprobate, rake, rakehell, libertine, lecher, whoremonger, roué, wanton, sybarite, voluptuary, sensualist With the restraints removed, the profligate abandoned himself to every excess imaginable 4 prodigal, spendthrift, wastrel, waster, squanderer Such are the extravagances indulged in by the profligates who never learnt the value of money