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prodigality

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun prodigality has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

prodigalityn. [F. prodigalité, L. prodigalitas. See Prodigal.].
     Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

prodigality

abundance, affluence, aggrandizement, amorality, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, avalanche, backsliding, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, bonanza, bounteousness, bountifulness, bountiousness, bounty, bumper crop, burlesque, caricature, carnality, cloud of words, copiousness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, criminality, delinquency, deluge, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dilatation, dilation, dissipation, drunkenness, effusion, effusiveness, embarras de richesses, enhancement, enlargement, enough, evil, evil nature, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, gluttony, grandiloquence, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, immorality, improvidence, impurity, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, inundation, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, logorrhea, lots, luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, macrology, magnification, maximum, money to burn, moral delinquency, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdoing, overdose, overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overindulgence, overkill, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overstatement, oversufficiency, oversupply, palilogy, peccability, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, prevalence, productiveness, productivity, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, puffery, puffing up, quantities, rampancy, rankness, recidivism, recklessness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, self-indulgence, sensationalism, shower, spate, squandering, stream, stretching, substantiality, substantialness, sumptuousness, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, superlative, swinishness, talkativeness, tall talk, tautology, teemingness, tirade, too much, too-muchness, touting, travesty, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, unconstraint, uncontrol, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrestraint, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waste, wastefulness, waywardness, wealth, wrongdoing

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Waste

N waste, consumption, expenditure, exhaustion, dispersion, ebb, leakage, loss, wear and tear, waste, prodigality, misuse, wasting, rubbish, mountain in labor, wasted, at a low ebb, wasteful, penny wise and pound foolish, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, idly busy rolls their world away.

Prodigality

N prodigality, prodigence, unthriftiness, waste, profusion, profuseness, extravagance, squandering, malversation, prodigal, spendthrift, waste thrift, losel, squanderer, locust, high roller, prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal, full-handed, penny wise and pound foolish, with an unsparing hand, money burning a hole in one's pocket, amor nummi, facile largiri de alieno, wie gewonnen so zerronnen, les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent, spendthrift alike of money and of wit, squandering wealth was his peculiar art.

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