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How to pronounce “profligate”
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Pronunciation guide for profligate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of profligate with real speech in context.
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who are so profligate with energy
- Definition summary
- Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
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How to pronounce profligate
Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
who are so profligate with energy
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “profligate”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
- Immoral; abandoned to vice.
- (obsolete senses)
- [Noun]
- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
- An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
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