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prodigal
Overview of noun prodigal
The noun prodigal has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. prodigal, profligate, squanderer -- (a recklessly extravagant consumer)
Overview of adj prodigal
The adj prodigal has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) lavish, munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting -- (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"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain")
2. extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift -- (recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures")
3. prodigal -- (marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prodigal
1 sense of prodigal
Sense 1
prodigal, profligate, squanderer
=> consumer
=> user
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun prodigal
1 sense of prodigal
Sense 1
prodigal, profligate, squanderer
=> spendthrift, spend-all, spender, scattergood
=> wastrel, waster
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prodigal
1 sense of prodigal
Sense 1
prodigal, profligate, squanderer
=> consumer
Antonyms of noun prodigal
Member Holonyms of noun prodigal
Substance Holonyms of noun prodigal
Part Holonyms of noun prodigal
Member Meronyms of noun prodigal
Substance Meronyms of noun prodigal
Part Meronyms of noun prodigal
Meronyms of noun prodigal
Holonyms of noun prodigal
Attributes of noun prodigal
Derived Forms of noun prodigal
Domain of noun prodigal
Domain Terms of noun prodigal
Familiarity of noun prodigal
prodigal used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun prodigal
1 sense of prodigal
Sense 1
prodigal, profligate, squanderer
> consumer
=> chewer
=> concert-goer, music lover
=> customer, client
=> drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer
=> drinker
=> eater, feeder
=> prodigal, profligate, squanderer
=> smoker, tobacco user
=> snuffer, snuff user
Meronyms of noun prodigal
1 sense of prodigal
Sense 1
prodigal, profligate, squanderer
=> consumer
=> user
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun prodigal
Grep of noun prodigal
prodigal
prodigality
Antonyms of adj prodigal
3 senses of prodigal
Sense 1
lavish, munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
INDIRECT (VIA generous) -> stingy, ungenerous
Sense 2
extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift
INDIRECT (VIA wasteful) -> thrifty
Sense 3
prodigal
INDIRECT (VIA improvident) -> provident
Similarity of adj prodigal
3 senses of prodigal
Sense 1
lavish, munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
=> generous (vs. stingy)
Sense 2
extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift
=> wasteful (vs. thrifty)
Sense 3
prodigal
=> improvident (vs. provident)
Pertainyms of adj prodigal
Attributes of adj prodigal
Domain of adj prodigal
Domain Terms of adj prodigal
Familiarity of adj prodigal
prodigal used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj prodigal
prodigal
Grep of adv prodigal
prodigally
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