0 spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise:
1 someone who behaves in a way that is morally wrong or who spends and wastes a lot of money:
He is a drunkard and a profligate.
2 wasting something, esp. money:
profligate spending
Spending £13,000 on a handbag seems offensively profligate.
She plays the part of the orphaned daughter of a profligate artist and a French opera girl.
Is he a man of good character or is he a profligate?
The previous three monarchs were described as "a lunatic, a profligate, and a buffoon".
The famous Lord Rochester was once a profligate and an infidel, but at last became a true penitent.
In licentiousness he exceeded the most noted profligates of the day.
This will encourage new generations of housebuyers and developers to be less profligate in the use of land.
