Profuse vs Profligate - What's the difference?
profuse | profligate |
In great quantity or abundance.
* Milton
(obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
(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:
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between profuse and profligate
is that profuse is (obsolete) to pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander while profligate is (obsolete) to drive away; to overcome.As adjectives the difference between profuse and profligate
is that profuse is in great quantity or abundance while profligate is (obsolete) overthrown, ruined.As verbs the difference between profuse and profligate
is that profuse is (obsolete) to pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander while profligate is (obsolete) to drive away; to overcome.As a noun profligate is
an abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.profuse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
- profuse''' hospitality; '''profuse''' apologies; '''profuse expenditure
- a green, shady bank, profuse of flowers
Verb
(profus)- (Chapman)
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 ;
