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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