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 The meaning of PRODIGALITY is extravagance or an extravagant act in expenditure especially of money : reckless spending of resources : wastefulness How to use prodigality in a sentence
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