0 spending or using large amounts of money, time, energy, etc., especially in a way that is not very wise:
1 someone who spends or uses large amounts of money, time, energy, etc., especially in a way that is not very wise:
2 tending to spend or use something without thinking of the future:
He was prodigal with his talents.
In this regard, brain imaging studies contrasting prodigal and control cases could be highly informative.
But prodigal systems are still systematic and may be sensibly compared with economical ones.
Prodigal analysis could also be used to test whether the effects of maturation rates are mediated by the timing of functional lateralization.
Prodigal analysis might also focus on cases clustering into opposing developmental profiles of comprehension and production.
I suggest that we have come in for enough criticisms—rightly—over the prodigal expense on the car park.
I prefer to think of the parable of the prodigal son.
We have heard of the prodigal son and the herd of swine.
It is worthy of the prodigal son, to boast that one is spending four times more rapidly than one's income is providing.
