Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Broken down in principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. 2. (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered. 3. (n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. 4. (v. t.) To drive away; to overcome.

Multi-Version Concordance Profligate (3 Occurrences) Titus 1:6 wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will. (See RSV) James 5:5 Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come. (WEY) Deuteronomy 21:20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is unmanageable and rebellious, he hearkeneth not unto our voice; he is a profligate and a drunkard. (DBY NIV)