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Profligate vs Louche - What's the difference?

profligate | louche |

As adjectives the difference between profligate and louche

is that profligate is overthrown, ruined while louche is of questionable taste or morality; decadent.

As verbs the difference between profligate and louche

is that profligate is to drive away; to overcome while louche is to become cloudy when mixed with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the ouzo effect.

As a noun profligate

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

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

    Related terms

    * profligacy * profligately * profligateness * profligation

    External links

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    louche

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.
  • * 2012', "''Upstairs Downstairs'' hosts the Kennedys and Wallis Simpson (these days, in British culture, the archetypal '''louche American)." ( The other half lives, ''The Economist , February 25th)
  • Not reputable or decent.
  • * 1888', "The aunt will refuse; she will think the whole proceeding very '''louche !" (''The Aspern Papers , Henry James)
  • Raffish, rakish, or unconventional and slightly disreputable, in an attractive manner.
  • * “Anyone inside the business can also tell you that without Carine Roitfeld’s louche sexy styling Tom Ford’s Gucci might easily have come off looking like a high-end Club Monaco.” (The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/fashion/shows/09INTRO.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)

    • Verb

    (louch)
  • (alcoholic beverages) To become cloudy when mixed with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the .
    • Certain anise-flavored drinks have developed a mystique based on the exotic appearance of louching .

    See also

    * (Ouzo effect) ----