prodigal

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挥霍无度,浪荡子,挥霍浪费,浪子回头

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- : giving or yielding profusely; very generous; lavish: prodigal of smiles; prodigal with praise.
- : lavishly abundant; profuse: nature's prodigal resources.

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who is wasteful of his or her money, possessions, etc.; spendthrift: In later years, he was a prodigal of his fortune.

adj.wasteful

Synonyms

It’s a document of Gullah Geechee culinary history, as well as the story of a self-described “prodigal son” returning to the land that raised him.
Abercrombie weaves the tale of Prince Yarvi in a tale part Captains Courageous, part Revenge of the Nerds, and part Prodigal Son.
No one knows, but on the 4th of July he began bellowing that the Prodigal Son would, in fact, return.
Her "prodigal son" brother, Mehran (Reza Sixo Safari), a former classical musician, returns home from a stint in drug rehab.
Turns out, Nash's "prodigal roommate" Charles isn't real, but rather a personification of Nash's loss of youthful exuberance.
In going to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was the prodigal son playing in his homeland.
I doubt if the State itself has ever known the meaning of hospitality since the old ranch days, when, of course, it was prodigal.
Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon.
Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme. Brunner.
The rooks were awake in Randolph Crescent; but the windows looked down, discreetly blinded, on the return of the prodigal.
In a pew on the left-hand side a little old man was holding forth as to the “prodigal son.”

/prod-i-guhl/US // ˈprɒd ɪ gəl //UK // (ˈprɒdɪɡəl) //

挥霍无度,浪荡子,挥霍浪费,浪子回头

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- : giving or yielding profusely; very generous; lavish: prodigal of smiles; prodigal with praise.
- : lavishly abundant; profuse: nature's prodigal resources.

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who is wasteful of his or her money, possessions, etc.; spendthrift: In later years, he was a prodigal of his fortune.

adj.wasteful

Synonyms

It’s a document of Gullah Geechee culinary history, as well as the story of a self-described “prodigal son” returning to the land that raised him.
Abercrombie weaves the tale of Prince Yarvi in a tale part Captains Courageous, part Revenge of the Nerds, and part Prodigal Son.
No one knows, but on the 4th of July he began bellowing that the Prodigal Son would, in fact, return.
Her "prodigal son" brother, Mehran (Reza Sixo Safari), a former classical musician, returns home from a stint in drug rehab.
Turns out, Nash's "prodigal roommate" Charles isn't real, but rather a personification of Nash's loss of youthful exuberance.
In going to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was the prodigal son playing in his homeland.
I doubt if the State itself has ever known the meaning of hospitality since the old ranch days, when, of course, it was prodigal.
Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon.
Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme. Brunner.
The rooks were awake in Randolph Crescent; but the windows looked down, discreetly blinded, on the return of the prodigal.
In a pew on the left-hand side a little old man was holding forth as to the “prodigal son.”