profligate (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. perdĭtus (abandoned)2. flāgĭtiōsus (characterized by all kinds of disgraceful living)3. nēquam, indecl. (good for nothing, vicious)4. prōflīgātus (rare) • profligate (adj.): 1. perdĭtus (abandoned): a p. and dissolute youth, adolescens p. ac dissolutus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 25, 55. Join: contaminatus, perditus, flagitiosus, id. Verr. 3, 58, 134. 2. flāgĭtiōsus (characterized by all kinds of disgraceful living): Join: vitiosa et flagitiosa [vita], id. Fin. 2, 28, 93; flagitiosissimus, libidinosissimus, nequissimus, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, 192. 3. nēquam, indecl. (good for nothing, vicious): cf. supr. 4. prōflīgātus (rare): Cic. Verr. 3, 26, 65 (tu, omnium mortalium profligatissime ac perditissime): id. Arch. 6, 14. Phr.: an utterly p. life, vita vitiis flagitiisque dedita, id. R. Am. 13, fin.; *vita omni nequitia infamis.