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Proliferate vs. Profligate — What's the Difference?

Proliferate vs. Profligate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Proliferate and Profligate

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Proliferate

Increase rapidly in number; multiply
The science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s

Profligate

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
Profligate consumers of energy

Proliferate

To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.

Profligate

Licentious; dissolute
He succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle

Proliferate

To increase or spread at a rapid rate
Fears that nuclear weapons might proliferate.
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Profligate

A licentious, dissolute person
He is a drunkard and a profligate

Proliferate

To cause to grow or increase rapidly.

Profligate

Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation
A profligate nightlife.

Proliferate

(ambitransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.

Profligate

Given to or characterized by reckless waste; wildly extravagant
A profligate spender.
The profligate use of water.

Proliferate

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

Profligate

A profligate person.

Proliferate

To produce zooids by budding.

Profligate

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

Proliferate

Grow rapidly;
Pizza parlors proliferate in this area

Profligate

Immoral; abandoned to vice.

Proliferate

Cause to grow or increase rapidly;
We must not proliferate nuclear arms

Profligate

(obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.

Profligate

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

Profligate

An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

Profligate

(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

Profligate

Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
The foe is profligate, and run.

Profligate

Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
A race more profligate than we.
Made prostitute and profligate muse.

Profligate

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

Profligate

To drive away; to overcome.

Profligate

A dissolute man in fashionable society

Profligate

A recklessly extravagant consumer

Profligate

Recklessly wasteful;
Prodigal in their expenditures

Profligate

Unrestrained by convention or morality;
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
Deplorably dissipated and degraded
Riotous living
Fast women

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