prodigality
n . 放荡;浪费;挥霍
放荡;浪费;挥霍
prodigality n 1 :
the trait of spending extravagantly [
synonym : {
extravagance },
{
prodigality }, {
profligacy }]
2 :
excessive spending [
synonym : {
extravagance }, {
prodigality },
{
lavishness }, {
highlife }, {
high life }]
Prodigality \
Prod `
i *
gal "
i *
ty \,
n . [
F .
prodigalit ['
e ],
L .
prodigalitas .
See {
Prodigal }.]
Extravagance in expenditure ,
particularly of money ;
excessive liberality ;
profusion ;
waste ; --
opposed to {
frugality },
{
economy },
and {
parsimony }."
The prodigality of his wit ."
--
Dryden .
[
1913 Webster ]
217 Moby Thesaurus words for "
prodigality ":
abundance ,
affluence ,
aggrandizement ,
amorality ,
ample sufficiency ,
ampleness ,
amplification ,
amplitude ,
avalanche ,
backsliding ,
ballyhoo ,
big talk ,
blowing up ,
bonanza ,
bounteousness ,
bountifulness ,
bountiousness ,
bounty ,
bumper crop ,
burlesque ,
caricature ,
carnality ,
cloud of words ,
copiousness ,
crapulence ,
crapulency ,
crapulousness ,
criminality ,
delinquency ,
deluge ,
diffuseness ,
diffusion ,
diffusiveness ,
dilatation ,
dilation ,
dissipation ,
drunkenness ,
effusion ,
effusiveness ,
embarras de richesses ,
enhancement ,
enlargement ,
enough ,
evil ,
evil nature ,
exaggerating ,
exaggeration ,
excess ,
excessiveness ,
exorbitance ,
expansion ,
extravagance ,
extravagancy ,
extreme ,
exuberance ,
fecundity ,
fertility ,
flood ,
flow ,
fluency ,
foison ,
formlessness ,
full measure ,
fullness ,
generosity ,
generousness ,
gluttony ,
grandiloquence ,
great abundance ,
great plenty ,
gush ,
gushing ,
heightening ,
huckstering ,
hyperbole ,
hyperbolism ,
immoderacy ,
immoderateness ,
immoderation ,
immorality ,
improvidence ,
impurity ,
incontinence ,
indiscipline ,
indulgence ,
inflation ,
inordinacy ,
inordinateness ,
intemperance ,
intemperateness ,
inundation ,
landslide ,
lavishness ,
liberality ,
liberalness ,
logorrhea ,
lots ,
luxuriance ,
luxuriousness ,
luxury ,
macrology ,
magnification ,
maximum ,
money to burn ,
moral delinquency ,
more than enough ,
much ,
myriad ,
myriads ,
numerousness ,
opulence ,
opulency ,
outpour ,
outpouring ,
overabundance ,
overaccumulation ,
overbounteousness ,
overcopiousness ,
overdoing ,
overdose ,
overemphasis ,
overestimation ,
overflow ,
overindulgence ,
overkill ,
overlavishness ,
overluxuriance ,
overmeasure ,
overmuchness ,
overnumerousness ,
overplentifulness ,
overplenty ,
overpopulation ,
overprofusion ,
overstatement ,
oversufficiency ,
oversupply ,
palilogy ,
peccability ,
plenitude ,
plenteousness ,
plentifulness ,
plenty ,
pleonasm ,
plethora ,
prevalence ,
productiveness ,
productivity ,
profligacy ,
profuseness ,
profusion ,
prolificacy ,
prolificity ,
puffery ,
puffing up ,
quantities ,
rampancy ,
rankness ,
recidivism ,
recklessness ,
redundancy ,
reiteration ,
reiterativeness ,
repetition for effect ,
repetitiveness ,
repleteness ,
repletion ,
rich harvest ,
rich vein ,
richness ,
riot ,
riotousness ,
scads ,
self -
indulgence ,
sensationalism ,
shower ,
spate ,
squandering ,
stream ,
stretching ,
substantiality ,
substantialness ,
sumptuousness ,
superabundance ,
superfluity ,
superflux ,
superlative ,
swinishness ,
talkativeness ,
tall talk ,
tautology ,
teemingness ,
tirade ,
too much ,
too -
muchness ,
touting ,
travesty ,
unangelicalness ,
unchastity ,
uncleanness ,
unconstraint ,
uncontrol ,
ungodliness ,
ungoodness ,
unmorality ,
unrestraint ,
unrighteousness ,
unsaintliness ,
unvirtuousness ,
vice ,
viciousness ,
wantonness ,
waste ,
wastefulness ,
waywardness ,
wealth ,
wrongdoing
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PRODIGALITY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster profuse, lavish, prodigal, luxuriant, lush, exuberant mean giving or given out in great abundance profuse implies pouring forth without restraint lavish suggests an unstinted or unmeasured profusion prodigal implies reckless or wasteful lavishness threatening to lead to early exhaustion of resources
PRODIGALITY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Prodigality definition: the quality or fact of being prodigal; wasteful extravagance in spending See examples of PRODIGALITY used in a sentence
PRODIGALITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary PRODIGALITY definition: 1 the quality of spending or using large amounts of money, time, energy, etc , especially in a way… Learn more
PRODIGALITY definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary PRODIGALITY definition: the quality or fact of being prodigal ; wasteful extravagance in spending | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English
Prodigality - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com Prodigality is excessive or extravagant spending Your friend may feel he needs those gold chairs for his living room, but to everyone else it’s another example of his prodigality “Idleness is the greatest prodigality,” said Ben Franklin
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