prodigal

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Wastefully extravagant.
2. (often) Yielding profusely, lavish.
3. Profuse, lavishly abundant.
4. Behaving as a prodigal son:
5. Behaving as a prodigal son:

Noun

A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.

Teenoorgestelde van

frugal, extravagant, prodigal

Sinonieme

spendthrift

extravagant

wasteful

lavish

profligate

squanderer

wastrel

waster

improvident

squandering

profuse

dissipated

dissolute

thriftless

abundant

libertine

spender

waste

debauched

munificent

overgenerous

rake

rakehell

spoil

squander

sumptuous

uneconomic

unstinted

unthrifty

user

vagabond

wester

big spender

be extravagant

rakehelly

above cool

bounteous

consumer

copious

debauchee

dissipate

employer

enormous

excessive

exuberant

fast

generous

incontinent

inefficient

lewd

Vertalings

verschwenderisch

prodigue

prodigo

άσωτος

pródigo

pródigo

kwistig

müsrif

abundante

prodigus

sprecone

generoso

üppig

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpɹɒdɪɡəl/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle French prodigal, from Late Latin prōdigālis (“wasteful”), from Latin prōdigus (“wasteful, lavish, prodigal”), from prōdigō (“to consume, squander, drive forth”), from prōd- [from prō (“before, forward”)] + agō (“to drive”). Also see prodigy.