Meaning & use
Profligates
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People who spend money or use resources in a recklessly extravagant or wasteful way.
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The king's court was full of profligates who bankrupted the treasury.
History remembers them as profligates who squandered a family fortune.
A note on using this word
From Latin 'profligare', meaning 'to ruin' or 'cast down'; 'profligate' can also describe reckless immoral behavior more broadly, not only spending.
Words with a similar meaning
spendthriftswastrels
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Words with an opposite meaning
misers
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