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Defenition of the word prodigal

    • Defenition of the word prodigal

      • Very generous; giving (money, praise, etc.) in abundance.
      • recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
      • very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"
      • marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life"
      • a recklessly extravagant consumer
      • very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity";
      • recklessly wasteful

    Synonyms for the word prodigal

      • dissolute
      • extravagant
      • lavish
      • munificent
      • overgenerous
      • profligate
      • reckless
      • spendthrift
      • squanderer
      • too-generous
      • uncontrolled
      • unsparing
      • unstinted
      • unstinting
      • wasteful

    Similar words in the prodigal

      • generous
      • improvident
      • prodigal
      • prodigality
      • prodigals
      • wasteful

    Hyponyms for the word prodigal

      • scattergood
      • spend-all
      • spender
      • spendthrift
      • waster
      • wastrel

    Hypernyms for the word prodigal

      • consumer

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