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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--profligate This week's theme: a medley of words. profligate (PROF-li-git, -gayt) adjective 1. Recklessly extravagant; wasteful. 2. Given over to dissipation; dissolute. noun A profligate person. [From Latin profligatus, past participle of profligare (to strike down, to ruin), from pro- (forth, down) + fligere (to strike).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Despite Bank Markazi's tsunami of petrodollars, the IMF has warned that profligate state spending spells future budget deficits." Matein Khalid; Iran: Sanctions, Geopolitics and the Economy; Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates); Jan 7, 2007. X-Bonus If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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