Proliferate vs. Profligate

Proliferateverb

(ambitransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.

Proliferateverb

To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

Proliferateverb

To produce zooids by budding.

Proliferateverb

grow rapidly;

Proliferateverb

cause to grow or increase rapidly;

Proliferateverb

increase rapidly in number; multiply

Proliferateverb

(of a cell, structure, or organism) reproduce rapidly

Proliferateverb

cause (cells, tissue, structures, etc.) to reproduce rapidly

Profligateadjective

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

Profligateadjective

Immoral; abandoned to vice.

Profligateadjective

(obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.

Profligatenoun

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

Profligatenoun

An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

Profligateverb

(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

Profligateadjective

Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

Profligateadjective

Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.

Profligatenoun

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

Profligateverb

To drive away; to overcome.

Profligatenoun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

Profligatenoun

a recklessly extravagant consumer

Profligateadjective

recklessly wasteful;

Profligateadjective

unrestrained by convention or morality;

Profligateadjective

recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

Profligateadjective

licentious; dissolute

Profligatenoun

a licentious, dissolute person