Thesaurus / prodigality
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synonyms for prodigality
- absurdity
- amenity
- dissipation
- exaggeration
- excess
- exorbitance
- expenditure
- extravagancy
- folly
- frill
- immoderation
- improvidence
- lavishness
- luxury
- outrageousness
- overindulgence
- profligacy
- profuseness
- profusion
- recklessness
- squandering
- superfluity
- unrestraint
- waste
- wastefulness
- wildness
- icing on the cake
- overdoing
- overspending
- preposterousness
- squander
- unreasonableness
- unthrift
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But meanwhile they enjoyed themselves with the reckless prodigality possible only to such men.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERRemain faithful to your vow of poverty, you who were given to prodigality and magnificence!
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEWe expected a certain amount of sultriness, but not in such lavish prodigality as it was delivered.
IN AFRICAJOHN T. MCCUTCHEONBy 1773 the prodigality of government raised the national expenditure far above the revenue.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTFrance was almost bankrupt, ruined by the prodigality of her two last kings and their neglect of their duties to their people.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTHis charity was only another form of prodigality, He was a gambler, too.
ART IN ENGLANDDUTTON COOKThe prodigality of a Polish feast exceeds all comprehension.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 56, NUMBER 348VARIOUSNor did Henry retain all the spoils himself: he gave away the abbey lands with a prodigality equal to his rapacity.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VIJOHN LORDEconomy without penuriousness, liberality without prodigality!
PORTRAITS OF CURIOUS CHARACTERS IN LONDON, &C. &C.ANONYMOUSThis prodigality so alarmed the Cardinal that it was thought to have hastened his end; eight days later he died.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGEWORDS RELATED TO PRODIGALITY
- balances
- by-products
- enoughs
- exorbitances
- exuberance
- fats
- fulsomenesses
- gluts
- inundations
- lavishness
- leavings
- leftovers
- luxuriance
- nimieties
- overdoses
- overflows
- overkill
- overload
- overmuch
- overruns
- oversupplies
- overweight
- plenty
- plethoras
- profusions
- recrements
- redundances
- redundancies
- refuse
- remainders
- residues
- rests
- spares
- superabundance
- supererogations
- superfluities
- surfeits
- surpluses
- the limits
- too much of a good things
- too muches
- wastefulness
- wastes
- absurdity
- amenity
- dissipation
- exaggeration
- excess
- exorbitance
- expenditure
- folly
- frill
- icing on the cake
- immoderation
- improvidence
- lavishness
- luxury
- outrageousness
- overdoing
- overindulgence
- overspending
- preposterousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- profusion
- recklessness
- squander
- squandering
- superfluity
- unreasonableness
- unrestraint
- unthrift
- wastefulness
- wildness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.