Dictionary Definition
prodigal adj
1 very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish
hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter
and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing
generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid
to Britain" [syn: lavish,
munificent, overgenerous, too-generous,
unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
3 marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal
life" n : a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: profligate, squanderer]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- wastefully extravagant.
- He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the
holidays.
- He is not a prodigal son.
- He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the
holidays.
- (often followed by of or
with) someone yielding profusely, lavish
- She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.
- How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget?
- She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.
- profuse, lavishly abundant
Translations
wastefully extravagant
- Finnish: tuhlaavainen
- Icelandic: hóflaus m|f, hóflaust
lavish
- Finnish: ylenpalttinen
profuse, lavishly abundant
- Finnish: ylenpalttinen
Noun
- A prodigal person, a spendthrift.
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Extensive Definition
Prodigal may refer to
- The Prodigal, a 1955 epic biblical film
- "The Prodigal" (Angel episode), a Season 1 episode of the TV show Angel
- "Prodigal" (Smallville episode), a Season 2 episode of the TV show Smallville
- Prodigal, the eighth track from Dreaming Out Loud, an album by American alternative rock band, OneRepublic
- Prodigal (CCM band), a Contemporary Christian music band of the 1980s led by Loyd Boldman
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Adamic,
abounding, abundant, affluent, aggrandized, alive with,
all-sufficing, ample,
amplified, aplenty, backsliding, ballyhooed, bibulous, big-time spender,
bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, carnal, copious, crapulent, crapulous, crawling, crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, disproportionate,
dissipative, easy
come, easy go, effuse,
effusive, epidemic, erring, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fallen, fat, fecund, fertile, fleshly, flush, formless, frail, full, galore, generous, gluttonous, grandiloquent, gushing, gushy, high-flown, hyperbolic, immoderate, improvident, impure, in plenty, in profusion,
in quantity, incontinent, indulgent, inexhaustible, infirm, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, jam-packed,
jammed, lapsed, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnified, many, maximal, much, numerous, of easy virtue,
opulent, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overgreat, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overpraised, overprolific, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, packed, peccable, penny-wise and
pound-foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, plethoric, populous, postlapsarian,
pound-foolish, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal son,
productive, profligate, profuse, profusive, proliferating, prolific, puffed, pullulating, rampant, recidivist, recidivistic, reckless, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over,
self-indulgent, spend-all, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, squandering, stretched, studded, sumptuous, superabundant, superlative, swarming, swinish, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with,
thick-coming, thriving,
thronged, thronging, too much, touted, unangelic, unbridled, unchaste, unclean, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfrugal, ungodly, ungood, unlimited, unmeasured, unrestrained, unrighteous, unsaintly, unthrifty, unvirtuous, virtueless, wanton, wasteful, waster, wastethrift, wastrel, wayward, weak, wealthy, well-found,
well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale