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prodigal

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spendthrift
noun. person careless with money
  • big spender
  • dissipater
  • high-roller
  • improvident
  • imprudent
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • spender
  • sport
  • squanderer
  • waster
  • wastrel

sumptuous
adj. luxurious, splendid
  • awe-inspiring
  • beautiful
  • costly
  • dear
  • deluxe
  • elegant
  • expensive
  • extravagant
  • gorgeous
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • lavish
  • luscious
  • luxuriant
  • magnificent
  • opulent
  • out of this world
  • palatial
  • plush
  • pompous
  • posh
  • prodigal
  • profuse
  • rich
  • ritzy
  • splendiferous
  • superb
  • swank
  • ultra
  • upholstered

unnecessary
adj. not required
  • accidental
  • additional
  • avoidable
  • beside the point
  • casual
  • causeless
  • chance
  • dispensable
  • excess
  • exorbitant
  • expendable
  • extraneous
  • extrinsic
  • fortuitous
  • futile
  • gratuitous
  • haphazard
  • inessential
  • irrelevant
  • lavish
  • needless
  • noncompulsory
  • nonessential
  • optional
  • prodigal
  • profuse
  • random
  • redundant
  • supererogatory
  • superfluous
  • surplus
  • uncalled-for
  • uncritical
  • undesirable
  • unessential
  • unneeded
  • unrequired
  • useless
  • wanton
  • worthless

vagabond
adj. unsettled; vagrant
  • aimless
  • destitute
  • down-and-out
  • drifting
  • errant
  • fancy-free
  • fly-by-night
  • footloose
  • idle
  • itinerant
  • itinerate
  • journeying
  • mendicant
  • migratory
  • moving
  • nomadic
  • perambulant
  • perambulatory
  • peripatetic
  • prodigal
  • rambling
  • roaming
  • rootless
  • roving
  • sauntering
  • shifting
  • shiftless
  • straggling
  • stray
  • strolling
  • transient
  • travelling
  • unsettled
  • wandering
  • wayfaring
  • wayward

wanton
adj. careless
  • capricious
  • changeable
  • devil-may-care
  • extravagant
  • fanciful
  • fickle
  • fitful
  • fluctuating
  • free
  • frivolous
  • heedless
  • hot and cold
  • immoderate
  • inconstant
  • intemperate
  • lavish
  • outrageous
  • prodigal
  • profuse
  • rash
  • reckless
  • spendthrift
  • spoiled
  • thriftless
  • unfettered
  • unreserved
  • unrestrained
  • up and down
  • variable
  • volatile
  • wasteful
  • whimsical
  • wild

wasteful
adj. not economical
  • careless
  • cavalier
  • destructive
  • dissipative
  • extravagant
  • immoderate
  • improvident
  • incontinent
  • lavish
  • liberal
  • overdone
  • overgenerous
  • pound-foolish
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • profuse
  • reckless
  • ruinous
  • spendthrift
  • squandering
  • thriftless
  • uneconomical
  • unthrifty
  • wanton
  • wild

roaming
adj. moving around
  • ambulatory
  • discursive
  • itinerant
  • meandering
  • migratory
  • nomadic
  • perambulatory
  • peripatetic
  • prodigal
  • roving
  • vagarious
  • vagrant
  • wandering

plentiful
adj. abundant
  • abounding
  • ample
  • appreciable
  • bounteous
  • bountiful
  • bumper
  • chock-full
  • competent
  • complete
  • copious
  • enough
  • excessive
  • extravagant
  • exuberant
  • fertile
  • flowing
  • flush
  • fruitful
  • full
  • fulsome
  • generous
  • improvident
  • inexhaustible
  • infinite
  • large
  • lavish
  • liberal
  • lousy with
  • lush
  • luxuriant
  • no end
  • overflowing
  • plenteous
  • plenty
  • prodigal
  • productive
  • profuse
  • prolific
  • replete
  • rife
  • sufficient
  • superabundant
  • superfluous
  • swarming
  • swimming
  • teeming
  • unlimited
  • well-provided

prodigal son
noun. forgiven child
  • lost lamb
  • magdalen
  • penitent
  • prodigal
  • prodigal returned
  • returnee
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Word Origin & History

prodigal mid-15c., back formation from prodigiality (mid-14c.), from O.Fr. prodigalite (13c.), from L.L. prodigalitatem (nom. prodigalitas) "wastefulness," from L. prodigus "wasteful," from prodigere "drive away, waste," from pro- "forth" + agere "to drive" (see act). First ref. is to prodigial son, from Vulgate L. filius prodigus (Luke xv.11-32).

Example Sentences for prodigal

Who, think you, does more injustice, a prodigal man or a saving man?

Swine were the natural companions of the prodigal, and the sooner he was with them the better!

Here, too, are the ironies whereof departed life is prodigal.

But for her Paula would not have returned, like the Prodigal son, to the father's house.

I am prodigal enough at times, but I will not part with such a treasure as that.

It is the love of a mother to her prodigal son that makes her pray for him.

The company is not prodigal of foot-warmers, that's certain!

I was received there with all the welcome it was possible for a prodigal son to be.

Mr. Cripps called me his 'prodigal daughter,' and Mrs. Cripps prayed over me.

She read of the prodigal son, and of Him who would not condemn the woman that was a sinner.

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