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- Dictionaryprodigal/ˈprɒdɪɡl/
adjective
- 1. spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant: "prodigal habits die hard" Similar Opposite
- 2. having or giving something on a lavish scale: "the dessert was prodigal with whipped cream" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way: "he hated rich prodigals who lived useless, imprudent lives"
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The meaning of PRODIGAL is characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish. How to use prodigal in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Prodigal.
noun [ C ] / ˈprɒd.ɪ.ɡ ə l / / ˈprɑː.dɪ.ɡ ə l /. someone who spends or uses large amounts of money, time, energy, etc., especially in a way that is not very wise: The prodigals among them will always be more numerous than the misers.
Prodigal is very often encountered in the phrase prodigal son/daughter/child in both formal and informal contexts for someone who reformed their reckless ways. Among Christians, prodigal is also frequently used in direct discussion of the parable.
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home. See prodigal in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: prodigal. Definition of prodigal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
Some common synonyms of prodigal are exuberant, lavish, lush, luxuriant, and profuse. While all these words mean "giving or given out in great abundance," prodigal implies reckless or wasteful lavishness threatening to lead to early exhaustion of resources. prodigal spending.
Use the adjective prodigal to describe someone who spends too much money, or something very wasteful. Your prodigal spending on fancy coffee drinks might leave you with no money to buy lunch. Prodigal usually applies to the spending of money. In the Bible, the Prodigal Son leaves home and wastes all his money.
You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person.
Prodigal expenditures on unneeded weaponry; a prodigal nephew who squandered his inheritance.
1. Rashly or wastefully extravagant: prodigal expenditures on unneeded weaponry; a prodigal nephew who squandered his inheritance. 2. Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse: "the infinite number of organic beings with which the sea of the tropics, so prodigal of life, teems" (Charles Darwin).
