Definition of prodigal in English:

prodigal

adjective ˈprɒdɪɡ(ə)lˈprɑdəɡəl

1Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.
挥霍的；奢侈的，铺张的
prodigal habits die hard
奢侈的习惯很难改掉。
Example sentencesExamples
- As Mauss perceptively noted, the gift economy enhances the authority of the most prodigal giver, not of the most aggressive hoarder.
- At this point, Leih Tseih reveals his prodigal past to Ku Yum.
- Above all, the Executive must curb its own prodigal spending.
- How this will play out, especially given the frequency with which Americans and other prodigal consumers already clog more modern equipment, is one big unknown.
- It is short-sighted and a prodigal use of limited resources.
- This look says that the wearers, whatever they do or say, must be treated like prodigal children rather than responsible adults, and exempts them from all the usual pressures of conformity.
- The film revolves around a prodigal father figure, Royal Tenenbaum, played by Gene Hackman auditioning for the Oscars.
- Go hard on those sugar farmers, or should I say, go hard on that prodigal federal government.
- The Tories are non-starters as a party of government and the Lib Dems aspire to be more prodigal spendthrifts than Gordon Brown.
- His reluctance to utter the word ‘sorry’ in this case might seem odd because Blair used to be notorious for his prodigal use of the apology.
- It is doubtful if our own rust-bucket Chancellor, with his prodigal handouts, redistributist mania and fiscal incontinence could outdo this supposedly Republican administration.
- Poor William of Occam (whose logical razor is supposed to cut out unnecessarily prodigal assumptions) must be turning in his grave at the thought of such a multiplication of entities.
- On the other hand, Justin's father, the prodigal father, was singing and grooving in $2,000 suits that you know Justin is going to be paying for a week from now.
- Even the sport most apt to have a prodigal star, tennis, rarely has a 19-year-old dominate in the men's game.
- Call me reckless, prodigal even, but I've been spending up big on electricity.
- Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond.
- Retaining the centralized banking systems that prevail worldwide today with their monstrously prodigal paper instruments is no answer.
- A second concern is the ‘deficit doesn't matter attitude’ being bandied about by certain prodigal U.S. politicians.
- Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside.
- Team coach Tim Murphy had no doubt that their prodigal first half wastage (they shot ten wides to Ballygunner's two) was critical in determining the outcome.
Synonyms
wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, imprudent, immoderate, profligate, thriftless, excessive, intemperate, irresponsible, self-indulgent, reckless, wanton
2Having or giving something on a lavish scale.
慷慨的，不吝惜的
the dessert was prodigal with whipped cream
这种甜点用红糖制成，很松脆，而且浇了很多掼奶油。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility (witness the huge number of sperm in any ejaculation), but we no longer need that prodigality.
- Caesar, or Christ, that is the question: the vast, attractive, skeptical world, with its pleasures and ambitions and its prodigal promise, or the meek, majestic, and winning figure of Him of Nazareth?
- As a small boy, Stephen showed few signs of prodigal genius; he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart - a way of ‘finding out how the world around me worked’.
- A Danish composer whose catalogue contains almost 700 works, Niels Viggo Bentzon was a dynamic creative artist of prodigal talents.
- In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary.
- Beside the little plateau a rocky basin of roughly the same shape and dimensions caught the thundering water in its downward rush, tossing it high, splashing and spraying, breezing falling flowers and mist with prodigal liberality.
- The hand is self - addressed as no other organ in the animal kingdom, and it has a prodigal inventiveness permitting choice also unmatched in other living creatures.
Synonyms
generous, lavish, liberal, unstinting, unsparing, bountiful
copious, profuse
abundant in, abounding in, rich
literary bounteous

noun ˈprɒdɪɡ(ə)lˈprɑdəɡəl

1A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way.
挥霍者，奢侈的人
the government wished to clip the wings of the local authority prodigals
Example sentencesExamples
- That night, having effected a cure, the alluring Eva is discovered in delecto flagrante with the young prodigal and promptly repudiated by the elders.
- Epistle III, to Lord Bathurst, deals with the use of riches, which is understood by few, neither the avaricious nor the prodigal deriving happiness from them.
- But the 21-year old heroin-addicted punk rocker from southern England wasn't the only prodigal.
- This includes not just creditors but, above all, the little man who is forced to keep his meager savings in the form of cash, i.e., paper money open to plunder by the prodigal which is the consortium of the banks and the government.
- In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar.
- When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost.
- As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother.
- The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy.
- Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness.
- Though he never mentions him, Tony Hendra has much in common with another prodigal, a man born two generations before him: Malcolm Muggeridge.
Synonyms
profligate, prodigal, squanderer, waster
1. 1.1 A person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but later makes a repentant return.
  回头的浪子（或挥霍的女儿）
  Example sentencesExamples
  And what has brought about the return of the prodigal son more than a year after he stepped out of the limelight?
  When he returned after winning the contest to his one-bedroomed home in a government building in central Dharavi, he was treated like a long-lost prodigal.
  The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?
  My mother was back - eight months with me and another five back home, and she had returned like the prodigal, no longer self-indulgent in her grief.
  It was billed as the return of the prodigal son, the homecoming that would put fire in the bellies of the young Borders recruits and bums on seats at Netherdale.
  In Jesus' story of the prodigal, the father welcomes his boy home be redefining what it means to belong to the family.
  In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son.
  Then we went out to my local and it really was like the prodigal son had returned: applause, warmth, girls coming up to me, a guy buying me a drink.
  This is the perfect time for the prodigal daughter to return to her roots.
  The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever.
  He is continuing to build up his panel in trial matches and gave a trial to a few newcomers or returning prodigals at the weekend.
  Slowly, as the prodigal sons returned from the West, galleries began to develop, new painters emerged, and some kind of climate was created for art.
  This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold.
  He recognises me, after 17 years: the prodigal's homecoming.
  The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation.
  Did I think I'd find a ticker-tape parade laid on for the return of the prodigal son?
  I felt like the returned prodigal - wasteful, superfluous.
  In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was.
  The prodigal returns home to marry his high school sweetheart and to mind the store, but the lure of rock and roll ultimately calls him away from responsibility.
  And I received the welcome of a prodigal in my house.

Derivatives

prodigality

noun prɒdɪˈɡalɪtiˌprɑdəˈɡælədi

I chose the Four Seasons George V, off the Champs Elysées, recently refurbished in its original 1928 decorative prodigality.
Example sentencesExamples
- There was an exuberance or prodigality of sweetness about the mere act of living which our race finds it difficult not to associate with forbidden and extravagant actions.
- The Count liked to find his own prodigality in others.
- Gordon doesn't do short-term these days: he prefers to engage in long-term forecasts of future prosperity, to legitimise current prodigality.
- The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple.
- Lucy Moore writes with a glad eye of the prodigality of unrestrained royalty, the full-blown excess that in the end wearied the more realistic Queen Victoria.

prodigally

adverb ˈprɒdɪɡəliˈprɑdəɡ(ə)li

But Sparta, prodigally, has given us not one but two English adjectives, and a noun besides: ‘spartan’, of course, ‘laconic’, and, less obviously, ‘helot’.
Example sentencesExamples
- I have to admit that it amused me to know that the previous day, Chelsea, for all his prodigally spent millions, had contrived to lose 2-1 at home to Bolton Wanderers.
- However, with the demise of the fishing industry and the acute depopulation of the islands no more will we see islanders manning our ships in war so prodigally as in the past.
- On the other hand billions of rupiah have been prodigally spent for far from urgent projects, such as the renovation of the Hotel Indonesia roundabout and the fence around Monas park.
- Hit-or-miss one-liners are tossed about prodigally.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus 'lavish'.

Definition of prodigal in US English:

prodigal

adjectiveˈprɑdəɡəlˈprädəɡəl

1Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.
挥霍的；奢侈的，铺张的
prodigal habits die hard
奢侈的习惯很难改掉。
Example sentencesExamples
- Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside.
- A second concern is the ‘deficit doesn't matter attitude’ being bandied about by certain prodigal U.S. politicians.
- It is doubtful if our own rust-bucket Chancellor, with his prodigal handouts, redistributist mania and fiscal incontinence could outdo this supposedly Republican administration.
- On the other hand, Justin's father, the prodigal father, was singing and grooving in $2,000 suits that you know Justin is going to be paying for a week from now.
- Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond.
- As Mauss perceptively noted, the gift economy enhances the authority of the most prodigal giver, not of the most aggressive hoarder.
- Above all, the Executive must curb its own prodigal spending.
- The Tories are non-starters as a party of government and the Lib Dems aspire to be more prodigal spendthrifts than Gordon Brown.
- Call me reckless, prodigal even, but I've been spending up big on electricity.
- Retaining the centralized banking systems that prevail worldwide today with their monstrously prodigal paper instruments is no answer.
- It is short-sighted and a prodigal use of limited resources.
- This look says that the wearers, whatever they do or say, must be treated like prodigal children rather than responsible adults, and exempts them from all the usual pressures of conformity.
- At this point, Leih Tseih reveals his prodigal past to Ku Yum.
- His reluctance to utter the word ‘sorry’ in this case might seem odd because Blair used to be notorious for his prodigal use of the apology.
- How this will play out, especially given the frequency with which Americans and other prodigal consumers already clog more modern equipment, is one big unknown.
- The film revolves around a prodigal father figure, Royal Tenenbaum, played by Gene Hackman auditioning for the Oscars.
- Team coach Tim Murphy had no doubt that their prodigal first half wastage (they shot ten wides to Ballygunner's two) was critical in determining the outcome.
- Even the sport most apt to have a prodigal star, tennis, rarely has a 19-year-old dominate in the men's game.
- Go hard on those sugar farmers, or should I say, go hard on that prodigal federal government.
- Poor William of Occam (whose logical razor is supposed to cut out unnecessarily prodigal assumptions) must be turning in his grave at the thought of such a multiplication of entities.
Synonyms
wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, imprudent, immoderate, profligate, thriftless, excessive, intemperate, irresponsible, self-indulgent, reckless, wanton
2Having or giving something on a lavish scale.
慷慨的，不吝惜的
the dessert was crunchy with brown sugar and prodigal with whipped cream
这种甜点用红糖制成，很松脆，而且浇了很多掼奶油。
Example sentencesExamples
- Beside the little plateau a rocky basin of roughly the same shape and dimensions caught the thundering water in its downward rush, tossing it high, splashing and spraying, breezing falling flowers and mist with prodigal liberality.
- As a small boy, Stephen showed few signs of prodigal genius; he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart - a way of ‘finding out how the world around me worked’.
- In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary.
- The hand is self - addressed as no other organ in the animal kingdom, and it has a prodigal inventiveness permitting choice also unmatched in other living creatures.
- Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility (witness the huge number of sperm in any ejaculation), but we no longer need that prodigality.
- A Danish composer whose catalogue contains almost 700 works, Niels Viggo Bentzon was a dynamic creative artist of prodigal talents.
- Caesar, or Christ, that is the question: the vast, attractive, skeptical world, with its pleasures and ambitions and its prodigal promise, or the meek, majestic, and winning figure of Him of Nazareth?
Synonyms
generous, lavish, liberal, unstinting, unsparing, bountiful

nounˈprɑdəɡəlˈprädəɡəl

1A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way.
挥霍者，奢侈的人
Example sentencesExamples
- When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost.
- Epistle III, to Lord Bathurst, deals with the use of riches, which is understood by few, neither the avaricious nor the prodigal deriving happiness from them.
- Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness.
- The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy.
- Though he never mentions him, Tony Hendra has much in common with another prodigal, a man born two generations before him: Malcolm Muggeridge.
- As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother.
- That night, having effected a cure, the alluring Eva is discovered in delecto flagrante with the young prodigal and promptly repudiated by the elders.
- In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar.
- But the 21-year old heroin-addicted punk rocker from southern England wasn't the only prodigal.
- This includes not just creditors but, above all, the little man who is forced to keep his meager savings in the form of cash, i.e., paper money open to plunder by the prodigal which is the consortium of the banks and the government.
Synonyms
profligate, prodigal, squanderer, waster
1. 1.1 A person who leaves home and behaves recklessly, but later makes a repentant return.
  回头的浪子（或挥霍的女儿）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever.
  The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation.
  The prodigal returns home to marry his high school sweetheart and to mind the store, but the lure of rock and roll ultimately calls him away from responsibility.
  In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son.
  And what has brought about the return of the prodigal son more than a year after he stepped out of the limelight?
  In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was.
  The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?
  My mother was back - eight months with me and another five back home, and she had returned like the prodigal, no longer self-indulgent in her grief.
  Then we went out to my local and it really was like the prodigal son had returned: applause, warmth, girls coming up to me, a guy buying me a drink.
  And I received the welcome of a prodigal in my house.
  When he returned after winning the contest to his one-bedroomed home in a government building in central Dharavi, he was treated like a long-lost prodigal.
  Did I think I'd find a ticker-tape parade laid on for the return of the prodigal son?
  He recognises me, after 17 years: the prodigal's homecoming.
  This is the perfect time for the prodigal daughter to return to her roots.
  In Jesus' story of the prodigal, the father welcomes his boy home be redefining what it means to belong to the family.
  Slowly, as the prodigal sons returned from the West, galleries began to develop, new painters emerged, and some kind of climate was created for art.
  This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold.
  I felt like the returned prodigal - wasteful, superfluous.
  He is continuing to build up his panel in trial matches and gave a trial to a few newcomers or returning prodigals at the weekend.
  It was billed as the return of the prodigal son, the homecoming that would put fire in the bellies of the young Borders recruits and bums on seats at Netherdale.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus ‘lavish’.

单词	prodigal
释义	Definition of prodigal in English: prodigal adjective ˈprɒdɪɡ(ə)lˈprɑdəɡəl 1Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant. 挥霍的；奢侈的，铺张的 prodigal habits die hard 奢侈的习惯很难改掉。 Example sentencesExamples As Mauss perceptively noted, the gift economy enhances the authority of the most prodigal giver, not of the most aggressive hoarder. At this point, Leih Tseih reveals his prodigal past to Ku Yum. Above all, the Executive must curb its own prodigal spending. How this will play out, especially given the frequency with which Americans and other prodigal consumers already clog more modern equipment, is one big unknown. It is short-sighted and a prodigal use of limited resources. This look says that the wearers, whatever they do or say, must be treated like prodigal children rather than responsible adults, and exempts them from all the usual pressures of conformity. The film revolves around a prodigal father figure, Royal Tenenbaum, played by Gene Hackman auditioning for the Oscars. Go hard on those sugar farmers, or should I say, go hard on that prodigal federal government. The Tories are non-starters as a party of government and the Lib Dems aspire to be more prodigal spendthrifts than Gordon Brown. His reluctance to utter the word ‘sorry’ in this case might seem odd because Blair used to be notorious for his prodigal use of the apology. It is doubtful if our own rust-bucket Chancellor, with his prodigal handouts, redistributist mania and fiscal incontinence could outdo this supposedly Republican administration. Poor William of Occam (whose logical razor is supposed to cut out unnecessarily prodigal assumptions) must be turning in his grave at the thought of such a multiplication of entities. On the other hand, Justin's father, the prodigal father, was singing and grooving in $2,000 suits that you know Justin is going to be paying for a week from now. Even the sport most apt to have a prodigal star, tennis, rarely has a 19-year-old dominate in the men's game. Call me reckless, prodigal even, but I've been spending up big on electricity. Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond. Retaining the centralized banking systems that prevail worldwide today with their monstrously prodigal paper instruments is no answer. A second concern is the ‘deficit doesn't matter attitude’ being bandied about by certain prodigal U.S. politicians. Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside. Team coach Tim Murphy had no doubt that their prodigal first half wastage (they shot ten wides to Ballygunner's two) was critical in determining the outcome. Synonyms wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, imprudent, immoderate, profligate, thriftless, excessive, intemperate, irresponsible, self-indulgent, reckless, wanton 2Having or giving something on a lavish scale. 慷慨的，不吝惜的 the dessert was prodigal with whipped cream 这种甜点用红糖制成，很松脆，而且浇了很多掼奶油。 Example sentencesExamples Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility (witness the huge number of sperm in any ejaculation), but we no longer need that prodigality. Caesar, or Christ, that is the question: the vast, attractive, skeptical world, with its pleasures and ambitions and its prodigal promise, or the meek, majestic, and winning figure of Him of Nazareth? As a small boy, Stephen showed few signs of prodigal genius; he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart - a way of ‘finding out how the world around me worked’. A Danish composer whose catalogue contains almost 700 works, Niels Viggo Bentzon was a dynamic creative artist of prodigal talents. In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary. Beside the little plateau a rocky basin of roughly the same shape and dimensions caught the thundering water in its downward rush, tossing it high, splashing and spraying, breezing falling flowers and mist with prodigal liberality. The hand is self - addressed as no other organ in the animal kingdom, and it has a prodigal inventiveness permitting choice also unmatched in other living creatures. Synonyms generous, lavish, liberal, unstinting, unsparing, bountiful copious, profuse abundant in, abounding in, rich literary bounteous noun ˈprɒdɪɡ(ə)lˈprɑdəɡəl 1A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way. 挥霍者，奢侈的人 the government wished to clip the wings of the local authority prodigals Example sentencesExamples That night, having effected a cure, the alluring Eva is discovered in delecto flagrante with the young prodigal and promptly repudiated by the elders. Epistle III, to Lord Bathurst, deals with the use of riches, which is understood by few, neither the avaricious nor the prodigal deriving happiness from them. But the 21-year old heroin-addicted punk rocker from southern England wasn't the only prodigal. This includes not just creditors but, above all, the little man who is forced to keep his meager savings in the form of cash, i.e., paper money open to plunder by the prodigal which is the consortium of the banks and the government. In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar. When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost. As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother. The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy. Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness. Though he never mentions him, Tony Hendra has much in common with another prodigal, a man born two generations before him: Malcolm Muggeridge. Synonyms profligate, prodigal, squanderer, waster 1.1 A person who leaves home to lead a prodigal life but later makes a repentant return. 回头的浪子（或挥霍的女儿） Example sentencesExamples And what has brought about the return of the prodigal son more than a year after he stepped out of the limelight? When he returned after winning the contest to his one-bedroomed home in a government building in central Dharavi, he was treated like a long-lost prodigal. The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government? My mother was back - eight months with me and another five back home, and she had returned like the prodigal, no longer self-indulgent in her grief. It was billed as the return of the prodigal son, the homecoming that would put fire in the bellies of the young Borders recruits and bums on seats at Netherdale. In Jesus' story of the prodigal, the father welcomes his boy home be redefining what it means to belong to the family. In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son. Then we went out to my local and it really was like the prodigal son had returned: applause, warmth, girls coming up to me, a guy buying me a drink. This is the perfect time for the prodigal daughter to return to her roots. The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever. He is continuing to build up his panel in trial matches and gave a trial to a few newcomers or returning prodigals at the weekend. Slowly, as the prodigal sons returned from the West, galleries began to develop, new painters emerged, and some kind of climate was created for art. This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold. He recognises me, after 17 years: the prodigal's homecoming. The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation. Did I think I'd find a ticker-tape parade laid on for the return of the prodigal son? I felt like the returned prodigal - wasteful, superfluous. In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was. The prodigal returns home to marry his high school sweetheart and to mind the store, but the lure of rock and roll ultimately calls him away from responsibility. And I received the welcome of a prodigal in my house. Derivatives prodigality noun prɒdɪˈɡalɪtiˌprɑdəˈɡælədi I chose the Four Seasons George V, off the Champs Elysées, recently refurbished in its original 1928 decorative prodigality. Example sentencesExamples There was an exuberance or prodigality of sweetness about the mere act of living which our race finds it difficult not to associate with forbidden and extravagant actions. The Count liked to find his own prodigality in others. Gordon doesn't do short-term these days: he prefers to engage in long-term forecasts of future prosperity, to legitimise current prodigality. The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple. Lucy Moore writes with a glad eye of the prodigality of unrestrained royalty, the full-blown excess that in the end wearied the more realistic Queen Victoria. prodigally adverb ˈprɒdɪɡəliˈprɑdəɡ(ə)li But Sparta, prodigally, has given us not one but two English adjectives, and a noun besides: ‘spartan’, of course, ‘laconic’, and, less obviously, ‘helot’. Example sentencesExamples I have to admit that it amused me to know that the previous day, Chelsea, for all his prodigally spent millions, had contrived to lose 2-1 at home to Bolton Wanderers. However, with the demise of the fishing industry and the acute depopulation of the islands no more will we see islanders manning our ships in war so prodigally as in the past. On the other hand billions of rupiah have been prodigally spent for far from urgent projects, such as the renovation of the Hotel Indonesia roundabout and the fence around Monas park. Hit-or-miss one-liners are tossed about prodigally. Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus 'lavish'. Definition of prodigal in US English: prodigal adjectiveˈprɑdəɡəlˈprädəɡəl 1Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant. 挥霍的；奢侈的，铺张的 prodigal habits die hard 奢侈的习惯很难改掉。 Example sentencesExamples Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside. A second concern is the ‘deficit doesn't matter attitude’ being bandied about by certain prodigal U.S. politicians. It is doubtful if our own rust-bucket Chancellor, with his prodigal handouts, redistributist mania and fiscal incontinence could outdo this supposedly Republican administration. On the other hand, Justin's father, the prodigal father, was singing and grooving in $2,000 suits that you know Justin is going to be paying for a week from now. Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond. As Mauss perceptively noted, the gift economy enhances the authority of the most prodigal giver, not of the most aggressive hoarder. Above all, the Executive must curb its own prodigal spending. The Tories are non-starters as a party of government and the Lib Dems aspire to be more prodigal spendthrifts than Gordon Brown. Call me reckless, prodigal even, but I've been spending up big on electricity. Retaining the centralized banking systems that prevail worldwide today with their monstrously prodigal paper instruments is no answer. It is short-sighted and a prodigal use of limited resources. This look says that the wearers, whatever they do or say, must be treated like prodigal children rather than responsible adults, and exempts them from all the usual pressures of conformity. At this point, Leih Tseih reveals his prodigal past to Ku Yum. His reluctance to utter the word ‘sorry’ in this case might seem odd because Blair used to be notorious for his prodigal use of the apology. How this will play out, especially given the frequency with which Americans and other prodigal consumers already clog more modern equipment, is one big unknown. The film revolves around a prodigal father figure, Royal Tenenbaum, played by Gene Hackman auditioning for the Oscars. Team coach Tim Murphy had no doubt that their prodigal first half wastage (they shot ten wides to Ballygunner's two) was critical in determining the outcome. Even the sport most apt to have a prodigal star, tennis, rarely has a 19-year-old dominate in the men's game. Go hard on those sugar farmers, or should I say, go hard on that prodigal federal government. Poor William of Occam (whose logical razor is supposed to cut out unnecessarily prodigal assumptions) must be turning in his grave at the thought of such a multiplication of entities. Synonyms wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, imprudent, immoderate, profligate, thriftless, excessive, intemperate, irresponsible, self-indulgent, reckless, wanton 2Having or giving something on a lavish scale. 慷慨的，不吝惜的 the dessert was crunchy with brown sugar and prodigal with whipped cream 这种甜点用红糖制成，很松脆，而且浇了很多掼奶油。 Example sentencesExamples Beside the little plateau a rocky basin of roughly the same shape and dimensions caught the thundering water in its downward rush, tossing it high, splashing and spraying, breezing falling flowers and mist with prodigal liberality. As a small boy, Stephen showed few signs of prodigal genius; he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart - a way of ‘finding out how the world around me worked’. In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary. The hand is self - addressed as no other organ in the animal kingdom, and it has a prodigal inventiveness permitting choice also unmatched in other living creatures. Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility (witness the huge number of sperm in any ejaculation), but we no longer need that prodigality. A Danish composer whose catalogue contains almost 700 works, Niels Viggo Bentzon was a dynamic creative artist of prodigal talents. Caesar, or Christ, that is the question: the vast, attractive, skeptical world, with its pleasures and ambitions and its prodigal promise, or the meek, majestic, and winning figure of Him of Nazareth? Synonyms generous, lavish, liberal, unstinting, unsparing, bountiful nounˈprɑdəɡəlˈprädəɡəl 1A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way. 挥霍者，奢侈的人 Example sentencesExamples When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost. Epistle III, to Lord Bathurst, deals with the use of riches, which is understood by few, neither the avaricious nor the prodigal deriving happiness from them. Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness. The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy. Though he never mentions him, Tony Hendra has much in common with another prodigal, a man born two generations before him: Malcolm Muggeridge. As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother. That night, having effected a cure, the alluring Eva is discovered in delecto flagrante with the young prodigal and promptly repudiated by the elders. In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar. But the 21-year old heroin-addicted punk rocker from southern England wasn't the only prodigal. This includes not just creditors but, above all, the little man who is forced to keep his meager savings in the form of cash, i.e., paper money open to plunder by the prodigal which is the consortium of the banks and the government. Synonyms profligate, prodigal, squanderer, waster 1.1 A person who leaves home and behaves recklessly, but later makes a repentant return. 回头的浪子（或挥霍的女儿） Example sentencesExamples The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever. The owners will declare an impasse this fall or next, then impose a salary cap and invite the prodigals to cross a picket line to join career minor leaguers in what will be a decidedly inferior confederation. The prodigal returns home to marry his high school sweetheart and to mind the store, but the lure of rock and roll ultimately calls him away from responsibility. In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son. And what has brought about the return of the prodigal son more than a year after he stepped out of the limelight? In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was. The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government? My mother was back - eight months with me and another five back home, and she had returned like the prodigal, no longer self-indulgent in her grief. Then we went out to my local and it really was like the prodigal son had returned: applause, warmth, girls coming up to me, a guy buying me a drink. And I received the welcome of a prodigal in my house. When he returned after winning the contest to his one-bedroomed home in a government building in central Dharavi, he was treated like a long-lost prodigal. Did I think I'd find a ticker-tape parade laid on for the return of the prodigal son? He recognises me, after 17 years: the prodigal's homecoming. This is the perfect time for the prodigal daughter to return to her roots. In Jesus' story of the prodigal, the father welcomes his boy home be redefining what it means to belong to the family. Slowly, as the prodigal sons returned from the West, galleries began to develop, new painters emerged, and some kind of climate was created for art. This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold. I felt like the returned prodigal - wasteful, superfluous. He is continuing to build up his panel in trial matches and gave a trial to a few newcomers or returning prodigals at the weekend. It was billed as the return of the prodigal son, the homecoming that would put fire in the bellies of the young Borders recruits and bums on seats at Netherdale. Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus ‘lavish’.
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