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prodigal 音標拼音: [pr'ɑdɪgəl] n. 浪費者
a. 浪費的,揮霍的,放蕩的 浪費者浪費的,揮霍的,放蕩的 prodigal adj 1: recklessly wasteful; " prodigal in their expenditures" [ synonym: { extravagant}, { prodigal}, { profligate}, { spendthrift}] n 1: a recklessly extravagant consumer [ synonym: { prodigal}, { profligate}, { squanderer}] Prodigal \ Prod" i* gal\, a. [ L. prodigus, from prodigere to drive forth, to squander away; pro forward, forth agere to drive; cf. F. prodigue. See { Agent}. ] Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. [ 1913 Webster] In fighting fields [ patriots] were prodigal of blood. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Profuse; lavish; extravagant; squandering; wasteful. See { Profuse}. [ 1913 Webster]
Prodigal \ Prod" i* gal\, n. One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift. " Noble prodigals of life." -- Trench. [ 1913 Webster] 208 Moby Thesaurus words for " prodigal": Adamic, abounding, abundant, affluent, aggrandized, alive with, all- sufficing, ample, amplified, aplenty, backsliding, ballyhooed, bibulous, big- time spender, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, carnal, copious, crapulent, crapulous, crawling, crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, disproportionate, dissipative, easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, erring, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fallen, fat, fecund, fertile, fleshly, flush, formless, frail, full, galore, generous, gluttonous, grandiloquent, gushing, gushy, high- flown, hyperbolic, immoderate, improvident, impure, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, indulgent, inexhaustible, infirm, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, jam- packed, jammed, lapsed, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnified, many, maximal, much, numerous, of easy virtue, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overgreat, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overpraised, overprolific, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, packed, peccable, penny- wise and pound- foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, plethoric, populous, postlapsarian, pound- foolish, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal son, productive, profligate, profuse, profusive, proliferating, prolific, puffed, pullulating, rampant, recidivist, recidivistic, reckless, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, self- indulgent, spend- all, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, squandering, stretched, studded, sumptuous, superabundant, superlative, swarming, swinish, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick- coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, too much, touted, unangelic, unbridled, unchaste, unclean, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfrugal, ungodly, ungood, unlimited, unmeasured, unrestrained, unrighteous, unsaintly, unthrifty, unvirtuous, virtueless, wanton, wasteful, waster, wastethrift, wastrel, wayward, weak, wealthy, well- found, well- furnished, well- provided, well- stocked, wholesalePRODIGAL, civil law, persons. Prodigals were persons who, though of full age, were incapable of managing their affairs, and of the obligations which attended them, in consequence of their bad conduct, and for whom a curator was therefore appointed. 2. In Pennsylvania, by act of assembly, an habitual drunkard is deprived of the management of his affairs, when he wastes his property, and his estate is placed in the bands of a committee.
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