prodigal – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
prodigal
adj.
generous, lavish; abundant, plentiful; wasteful, tending to squander money
n.
extravagant person, lavish spender; spendthrift, squanderer, one who wastes money
Prodigal
Prodigal may refer to
- a spendthrift, or person who spends money recklessly and wastefully
- Parable of the Prodigal Son (Bible)
- The Prodigal, a 1955 epic biblical film
- The Prodigal (Angel), a Season 1 episode of the TV show Angel
- Prodigal (Smallville), a Season 2 episode of the TV show Smallville
- "Prodigal", the eighth track from Dreaming Out Loud, an album by American alternative rock bandOneRepublic
- "Prodigal", the seventh track from In Absentia, an album by British progressive rock Porcupine Tree
- Prodigal (band), a contemporary Christian music band of the 1980s led by Loyd Boldman
- Prodigal, a 2002 musical by Mathew Frank
- Proactive Discovery of Insider Threats Using Graph Analysis and Learning, a computerized behavior analysis system
prodigal
Noun
1. a recklessly extravagant consumer
(synonym) profligate, squanderer
(hypernym) consumer
(hyponym) spendthrift, spend-all, spender, scattergood
Adjective
1. very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"
(synonym) lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
(similar) generous
2. recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
(synonym) extravagant, profligate, spendthrift
(similar) wasteful
3. marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life"
(similar) improvident
Prodigal
(n.)
One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.
(a.)
Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Prodigal
Prodigals were persons who, though of full age, were incapable of managing their affairs, and of the obligations which attended them, in consequence of their bad conduct, and for whom a curator was therefore appointed.
In Pennsylvania, by act of assembly, an habitual drunkard is deprived of the management of his affairs, when he wastes his property, and his estate is placed in the bands of a committee.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
