mid 16th cent. (in the sense overthrown, routed): from Latin profligatusdissolute, past participle of profligareoverthrow, ruin, from pro-forward, down + fligerestrike down
英英釋義網絡釋義
noun
1.a dissolute man in fashionable society
2.a recklessly extravagant consumer
3.recklessly wasteful;
prodigal in their expenditures
4.unrestrained by convention or morality;
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
-profligate
1 . 放蕩的
profligacy 放蕩profligate放蕩的profound 深刻的
2 . 浪費的
bureaucracy(官僚主義)andprofligate(浪費的)government borrowing maydouse(澆滅)growth in the years