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prodigal

UK /ˈpɹɒdɪɡəl/US /ˈpɹɑdɪɡəl/

adjective 6
noun 1
forms 3

adjective6

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Wastefully extravagant.
- He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.
- The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.
•
Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment.
- Simon Hart of the Daily Telegraph has tweeted that the prodigal triple-jumper has come home, in preparation for tomorrow's qualification round. — 2012
•
Yielding profusely, lavish.
- She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.
- How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget?
•
Profuse, lavishly abundant.
- And one, the reapers at their sultry toil. / In front they bound the sheaves. Behind / Were realms of upland, prodigal in oil, / And hoary to the wind. — 1832
Behaving as a prodigal son.
Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal.

noun1

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A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.
- Now thinkes he that her husbands shallow tongue, / The niggard prodigall that praisde her so: / In that high task hath done her Beauty wrong. — 1594

forms

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