Prodigal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRODIGAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a wastrel, a spendthrift
• a person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way
• a person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but later makes a repentant return.
• One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.
• a recklessly extravagant consumer
• person who spends lavishly or squanders money
ADJECTIVE:
• lavish
• spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant
• having or giving something on a lavish scale
• recklessly extravagant, wasteful
• 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.
• recklessly wasteful
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who spends lavishly and foolishly

Words related to PRODIGAL

prodigally17 prodigals13

Words that contain PRODIGAL

prodigals13 prodigally17 prodigalise15 prodigality18 prodigalize24 prodigalised17 prodigalises16 prodigalized26 prodigalizes25 prodigalising18 prodigalities17 prodigalizing27

How to use PRODIGAL in a sentence

• That in my opinion is the moral of the story of the Prodigal Son.
• Life is splendid! life is kind! life is abounding, deep-cupped! and each minute of it is a prodigal eternity.
• And these pearls came, not from the prodigal generosity of an imperial husband, but from treasures which had been the spoils of provinces.
• We have seen something of the regal state and prodigal luxury which surrounded the English aristocracy in the middle of the eighteenth century.
• The judge pointed out to the prodigal father that these purchases should rightly be made with Whipple money.
• II I HOSPITALITY I I imagine that whilst the prodigal son sat at meat with his father and their guests, there may have come to the door a weary tramp begging food and lodging.
• And the parable of the prodigal son teaches us the same lesson.
• It does not help to point us to the parable of the Prodigal Son, and tell us that there is a story of salvation without an atonement.
• His welcome to me was the sort that comes to mind when you read the Bible story of the prodigal son returning from a far-off country.
• Then it equally concerns them both to be painstaking and prodigal of toil in all their doings? Nic.
• Eat ye of the fruit thereof when it fruiteth, and pay the due thereof upon the harvest day, and be not prodigal.
• There might be a prodigal lover somewhere in the background, with ruin staring him in the face unless he could raise five hundred pounds.
• That wilderness of debris, that litter of the used and broken tools of war, lavish ruin and that prodigal evidence of death and battle, are as obvious and plentiful here as there.
• Nature never was more prodigal of her magic beauties.
• Long Mason had nearly 300 pounds, and he acted the part of the prodigal brother.
• Even Leff got some of them, and they fell on David prodigal and warming as the sunshine.
• The social dilemma of the fallen woman is much more difficult of solution than that of the prodigal son.
• The father, by unseen influences, win to virtue the heart of his poor prodigal.
• The parable of the Prodigal Son only half-tells it.
• Pauper in thought but prodigal in speech, Nothing he knew excepting how to teach.
• The rain of star-shells, always prodigal in the early evening, has died down to a mere drizzle.
• It shocks the higher critic to have the prodigal son come back so suddenly after going away so deliberately.
• In passing, note the contrast between the Rich Young Man and the Prodigal Son.
• It is as famed in the East as in the West, and thousands come to California to see it in its prodigal beauty.
• She had suffered much, and she felt that fate owed her a speedy return of the prodigal.
• Stephen Verner had been prodigal in his number of carriages, although the carriages had a sinecure of it, and Lionel had found no occasion to purchase.
• He was a minister, and had some concern in the affairs of that prodigal period.
• As they are prodigal of light with regard to grievances, so the people find them sparing in the extreme with regard to redress.
• If Appleboro had cherished the legend that this was a prodigal well on his way home, that afternoon settled it for them into a positive fact.
• The universal Father came not to him with open arms, as to welcome a returned prodigal, but frowned with the severity of a Judge about to pronounce sentence.

Similar words containing PRODIG without suffix al

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