profligate英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

— Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

— He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.

动词 v.

To drive away; to overcome. obsolete

— Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;
Obsolete form of profligated (past participle of profligate): profligated: routed, overcome, driven away. alt-of,obsolete

— The Canon laws […] with their Author, are profligate out of this realm.

形容词 adj.

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

— [H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!
Immoral; abandoned to vice.

— Made prostitute and profligate the muse.
Overthrown, ruined. adjective,error-misspelling,participle

— The foe is profligate, and run.

词形变化

more profligate comparative most profligate superlative profligates plural profligates present,singular,third-person profligating participle,present profligated participle,past profligated past

词汇关系

衍生词

profligacy profligately profligateness unprofligate

词源

词源 1

The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3) and pro-), from prō- (“forward”) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō (1st conjugation compound verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

词源 2

The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3) and pro-), from prō- (“forward”) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō (1st conjugation compound verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

词源 3

The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3) and pro-), from prō- (“forward”) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō (1st conjugation compound verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

词源 4

The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3) and pro-), from prō- (“forward”) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō (1st conjugation compound verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.