English Synonym Finder

profligately

Definitions

In a recklessly extravagant or wasteful manner.

In a way that is shamelessly immoral or dissolute.

Examples

The young heir spent his inheritance profligately, buying luxury cars and hosting lavish parties until his bank account was empty.

The company profligately wasted its research budget on projects that had no chance of succeeding in the current market.

Synonyms

extravagantly wastefully lavishly squanderingly imprudently thriftlessly excessively

Antonyms

frugally economically thriftily sparingly prudently conservatively parsimoniously