Difference between Profligate and Extravagant

What is the difference between Profligate and Extravagant?

Profligate as an adjective is inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. while Extravagant as an adjective is exceeding the bounds of something

Profligate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To drive away; to overcome.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. Overthrown; beaten; conquered, especially by vice.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

Extravagant

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: exceeding the bounds of somethingextremeexorbitant

Example sentence: A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

We hope you now know whether to use Profligate or Extravagant in your sentence.

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