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Flagitious vs Profligate - What's the difference?

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Flagitious is a synonym of profligate.


As adjectives the difference between flagitious and profligate

is that flagitious is (literary) of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal while profligate is (obsolete) overthrown, ruined.

As a noun profligate is

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

As a verb profligate is

(obsolete) to drive away; to overcome.

flagitious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (literary) Of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
  • * 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning'', from ''Miscellanies , 3rd volume, page 227:
  • This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […].
  • (literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
  • * 1959 (1985), Rex Stout, "Assault on a Brownstone", Death Times Three , page 186:
  • As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious !"

    Synonyms

    * (extremely brutal or cruel) (l), (l), (l), (l)

    See also

    * (l)

    profligate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
  • * Hudibras
  • The foe is profligate , and run.
  • Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
  • * 2013 , Ben Smith, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24503988]", BBC Sport , 19 October 2013:
  • 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.
  • Immoral; abandoned to vice.
  • * Roscommon
  • a race more profligate than we
  • * Dryden
  • Made prostitute and profligate muse.

    Synonyms

    * (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly) extravagant, wasteful, prodigal * immoral, licentious * See also

    Derived terms

    * profligateness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  • An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
  • Synonyms

    * (overly wasteful or extravagant individual) wastrel * See also and

    Verb

    (profligat)
  • (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
  • * 1840 , Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce , page 157:
  • Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;

    Synonyms

    * overcome