prodigal

Definitions

Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.

Having or giving something on a lavish scale; profuse.

A person who leaves home and behaves recklessly, but later makes a repentant return.

Examples

After years of traveling the world, the prodigal son finally returned home to his family.

The company's prodigal spending on unnecessary office luxuries eventually led to its financial downfall.

Synonyms

wasteful extravagant lavish spendthrift immoderate profligate squandering

Antonyms

thrifty frugal economical parsimonious stingy miserly sparing