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Prodigal
01
someone who spends or uses resources recklessly or wastefully
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
animate
Plural form
prodigals
Examples
Though he had wasted his inheritance, the community still saw him as a fellow man, not as a prodigal.
prodigal
01
habitually spending money or other resources in a reckless, extravagant, and wasteful way
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
qualitative
Superlative
most prodigal
Comparative
more prodigal
gradable
Examples
His prodigal spending on luxury cars and vacations soon depleted his savings.
