Flagitious vs Profligate - What's the difference?
flagitious | profligate | Synonyms |
(literary) Of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
* 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning'', from
(literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
* 1959 (1985), Rex Stout, "Assault on a Brownstone", Death Times Three , page 186:
(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:
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)''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 […].
- As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious !"
Synonyms
* (extremely brutal or cruel) (l), (l), (l), (l)See also
* (l)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 ;