Word Meanings - PRODIGALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony."The prodigality of his wit." Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRODIGALITY)

• Profusion
• Copiousness
• prodigality
• abundance
• exuberance
• extravagance
• multitude
• mass
• heap
• load
• flood
• wealth

Related words: (words related to PRODIGALITY)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• FLOODAGE
  Inundation. Carlyle.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• WEALTHINESS
  The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
• WEALTHFUL
  Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
• FLOODING
  The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
• EXTRAVAGANCE
  1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit. 2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure
• FLOOD
  D. vloed, OS. flod, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. floedh, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. flodus; from the root of E. flow. sq. root80. See Flow, 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water,
• PROFUSION
  1. The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe. 2. Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities. Addison.
• COPIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden. Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.
• WEALTHILY
  In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.
• MULTITUDE
  1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. Matt. ix. 36. 2. A great number of persons or things, regarded
• PRODIGALITY
  Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony."The prodigality of his wit." Dryden.
• EXUBERANCE
  The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage. Syn. -- Abundance; superabundance; excess; plenty; copiousness;
• WEALTHY
  1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak. Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. lxvi. 12. 2. Hence, ample;
• WEALTH
  1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." 1 Cor. x. 24. 2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence;
• WATERFLOOD
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• LANDFLOOD
  An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.
• OVERMULTITUDE
  To outnumber.