prodigal

prodigal
adj
1. profligate, wasteful, spendthrift, dissipative, squandering, improvident, thriftless; extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, overweening, exorbitant, excessive, unwarranted; munificent, generous, open-handed, free-handed.
2. abundant, abounding, plentiful, plenteous, bountiful, bounteous, copious, ample; profuse, profusive, lavish, overflowing, exuberant, superabundant; ex-haustless, boundless, bottomless, limitless, measureless; rich, luxuriant, rank, thriving; replete, rife, flush, teeming, swarming; myriad, multitudinous, numerous, numberless, innumerable.
n
3. profligate, wastrel, waster, squanderer; spendthrift, scattergood, Inf. high liver, Inf. big spender, Inf. free spender, spender.

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