Atrocious vs Profligate - What's the difference?
atrocious | profligate | Related terms |
Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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(obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
* Hudibras
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
* 2013 , Ben Smith, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24503988]", BBC Sport , 19 October 2013:
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
* Roscommon
* Dryden
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
* 1840 , Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce , page 157:
As adjectives the difference between atrocious and profligate
is that atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous while profligate is overthrown, ruined.As a noun profligate is
an abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.As a verb profligate is
to drive away; to overcome.atrocious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "atrocious" is often applied: crime, act, murder, condition, spelling, grammar.profligate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The foe is profligate , and run.
- Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate , United were far more ruthless.
- a race more profligate than we
- Made prostitute and profligate muse.
Synonyms
* (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly) extravagant, wasteful, prodigal * immoral, licentious * See alsoDerived terms
* profligatenessNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (overly wasteful or extravagant individual) wastrel * See also andVerb
(profligat)- Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;