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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prodigality, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary Factsheet What does the noun prodigality mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun prodigality See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
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