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adjective
- 1. spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant: "prodigal habits die hard" Similar Opposite
- 2. having or giving something on a lavish scale: "the dessert was crunchy with brown sugar and prodigal with whipped cream" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way: "he hated rich prodigals who lived useless, imprudent lives"
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The meaning of PRODIGAL is characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish. How to use prodigal in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Prodigal.
PRODIGAL definition: 1. spending or using large amounts of money, time, energy, etc., especially in a way that is not…. Learn more.
What does prodigal mean? Prodigal generally refers to spending money in a reckless, extravagant way. It is often used in reference to the Biblical parable of the prodigal son.
Use the adjective prodigal to describe someone who spends too much money, or something very wasteful. Your prodigal spending on fancy coffee drinks might leave you with no money to buy lunch. Prodigal usually applies to the spending of money. In the Bible, the Prodigal Son leaves home and wastes all his money.
You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
Rashly or wastefully extravagant. Prodigal expenditures on unneeded weaponry; a prodigal nephew who squandered his inheritance.
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home. See prodigal in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: prodigal. Definition of prodigal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
1. Rashly or wastefully extravagant: prodigal expenditures on unneeded weaponry; a prodigal nephew who squandered his inheritance. 2. Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse: "the infinite number of organic beings with which the sea of the tropics, so prodigal of life, teems"(Charles Darwin).
You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
There are 11 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word prodigal, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
