- too willing to spend money or waste time, energy or materials synonym extravagant
- a prodigal administration
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProdigal is used with these nouns:- son
Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus ‘lavish’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See prodigal in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe/a prodigal (son)
- 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
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