profligation noun3 •The quality of being profligate; extravagance; overabundance.This profligation of grant programs has tended to confuse objectives, recipients, and administrators. — 1973 •Licentiousness; lewd behavior.a site of constant exchange and transition, Columbus Circle is suspended in a state of marginal profligation through numerous fugitive concurrences . — 2013 •(no longer used) defeat; rout; overthrowthe braying of Silenus his Ass, conduced much to the profligation of the Giants — 1609 formsprofligations