Use the adjective prodigal to describe someone who spends too much money, or something very wasteful. Your prodigal spending on fancy coffee drinks might leave you with no money to buy lunch.
Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical;
Noun
a recklessly extravagant consumer
Adjective S.
very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity";
Adjective S.
marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life"
Adjective S.
recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
a.
Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or
other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse;
lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the
prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.
n.
One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or
without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a
waster; a spendthrift.
Prodigal
In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood.
Prodigal
Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical;
One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.
Usage Examples
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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