Profligate vs Proliferate - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between profligate and proliferate is that profligate is (obsolete) to drive away; to overcome while proliferate is to increase in number or spread rapidly. As an adjective profligate is (obsolete) overthrown, ruined. 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
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proliferate English
Verb
( proliferat)
To increase in number or spread rapidly.
- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
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Related terms
* proliferation
* proliferative
* proliferous
* prolific
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