profligately

Thân thiện

He spends his inheritance profligately on lavish parties and expensive cars.

Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In a dissolute, extravagant, or recklessly wasteful manner: Describes an action done with a complete lack of restraint, especially regarding money, resources, or moral principles. It implies shameless or immoral extravagance.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • He spent his inheritance profligately, buying fast cars and throwing lavish parties.
  • The company's resources were used profligately, leading to its rapid bankruptcy.
  • They lived profligately, with no thought for the future.

Advanced Usage

• "To act profligately": To behave in a wildly extravagant or dissolute manner.
  • The ruler acted profligately, draining the kingdom's treasury for his own pleasures.

Variants and Related Words

• Profligate (adjective): Recklessly extravagant or completely immoral.
  • He was known for his profligate spending habits.
• Profligate (noun): A person who is recklessly extravagant or dissolute.
  • The young heir became a profligate, squandering his fortune.
• Profligacy (noun): The characteristic or quality of being profligate; shameless wastefulness.
  • The profligacy of the court was shocking to the common people.

Synonyms

• Dissolutely: In a manner lacking moral restraint; licentiously.
• Extravagantly: In a manner exceeding reasonable limits, especially in spending.
• Wastefully: In a manner that uses something carelessly or unnecessarily.
• Lavishly: In a sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious manner.

Antonyms

• Frugally: In a manner characterized by economy and the avoidance of waste.
• Thriftily: In a way that uses money and other resources carefully and wisely.
• Temperately: In a restrained or moderate manner.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. in a dissolute way

Từ đồng nghĩa

• dissolutely