prodigal 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- a person who is wasteful of his or her money, possessions, etc.; spendthrift: In later years, he was a prodigal of his fortune.
prodigal 近义词
wasteful
prodigal 的近义词 12 个
- profligate
- spendthrift
- squandering
- wanton
- dissipated
- excessive
- extravagant
- immoderate
- improvident
- intemperate
- lavish
- reckless
prodigal 的反义词 6 个
luxurious, profuse
person who spends a lot
更多prodigal例句
- 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.”