profligate
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Recklessly extravagant and wasteful, often in a morally dissolute way.
Her profligate spending on jewels left the estate deep in debt.
Business adjective
Spending money recklessly and wastefully.
Her profligate use of buy-now-pay-later left four separate instalment plans running at once.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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