Definition for Profligacy:

• A profligate course of life.

Synonyms for Profligacy:

• n.

  •
  • restraint.
  •
  • save,
  • careful,
  • squander.
  •corruption (noun)
  • de cadences,
  • de-gradations,
  • de generation,
  • de-cadence,
  • sinfulnesses,
  • de-generation,
  • de-generations,
  • de gradation,
  • de gradations,
  • de-cadences,
  • de cadence,
  • loosenesses,
  • de generations,
  • de-gradation.
  •depravity (noun)
  • de basements,
  • de-basements,
  • de basement,
  • de-basement,
  • vitiations.
  •dissipation (noun)
  • selfgratification,
  • dis-solutions,
  • hell handbasket,
  • dis solution,
  • highlivings,
  • hell in handbasket,
  • in temperance,
  • freelivings,
  • life fast lane,
  • ex cess,
  • self-gratifications,
  • freeliving,
  • free-livings,
  • high-livings,
  • free livings,
  • selfgratifications,
  • in-temperance,
  • self gratification,
  • ex-cess,
  • to hell handbasket,
  • squanderings,
  • ex-cesses,
  • dis-solution,
  • self gratifications,
  • dis solutions,
  • in-temperances,
  • highliving,
  • ex cesses,
  • life the fast lane,
  • high livings,
  • in temperances.
  •dissolution (noun)
  • dissolution.
  •extravagance (noun)
  • preposterousness,
  • Extravagancy,
  • excess,
  • amenity,
  • lavishness,
  • improvidence,
  • squandering,
  • superfluity,
  • exaggeration,
  • overindulgence,
  • unreasonableness,
  • absurdity,
  • outrageousness,
  • expenditure,
  • exorbitance,
  • Overdoing,
  • luxury,
  • folly,
  • waste,
  • unrestraint.
  •freedom (noun)
  • independency,
  • Freedoms,
  • laissez faire,
  • own accord,
  • full swing,
  • laxity,
  • Elbowroom,
  • Rampancy,
  • flexibility,
  • plenty of rope,
  • full play,
  • liberty.
  •self-government (noun)
  • self-government.
  •vice (noun)
  • maleficence,
  • malignance.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • prostitution,
  • lewdness,
  • black hole,
  • wastage,
  • overuse,
  • misuse.
  •
  • profuseness,
  • profusion.
  •
  • abuse.
  •dissipation
  • debauchery,
  • dissipation.
  •roguery
  • rascality.

Paraphrases for Profligacy:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    debauchery, wastefulness, squandering, wastage, waste, wasting.

Antonyms for Profligacy:

• n.

  • extravagance
    frugality, economy, lack.
  • license
    humility, cowardice, caution, meekness, care, order, modesty.
  • Other antonyms:
    uprightness, right, decorousness, scrupulousness, virtue, pureness, perfection, chastity, correctness, Scrupulosity, morality, virtuousness, purity, innocence, propriety, cleanness, goodness, spotlessness, legitimacy, good, seemliness, decency, rightness, blamelessness.

Profligacy Sentence Examples:

• When this was done, and the new furniture had got into its place, and my little book - room was settled sufficiently for work, I began a novel, to the writing of which I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age.

• Books recommending profligacy and pessimism, at which the high - souled errand - boy would shudder, lie upon all our drawing - room tables.