Profligate vs Stratagem - What's the difference?
profligate | stratagem |
(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:
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
As nouns the difference between profligate and stratagem
is that profligate is an abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person while stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.As an adjective profligate
is (obsolete) overthrown, ruined.As a verb profligate
is (obsolete) to drive away; to overcome.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 ;
Synonyms
* overcomeExternal links
* * ----stratagem
English
Noun
(en noun)- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.