Entry Word: prodigal

Function: adjective

Meaning: given to spending money freely or foolishly <the prodigal child always spent her allowance the minute she got it>

Synonyms extravagant, profligate, spendthrift, squandering, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful

Related Words improvident, myopic, shortsighted; bountiful, generous, lavish, liberal, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropic; careless, heedless, imprudent, incautious, injudicious, unwise; indulgent, reckless, self-indulgent, splurging, wanton

Near Antonyms cheap, close, mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, spare, sparing, stingy, tight, tightfisted; careful, judicious, prudent, sensible, wise; farsighted, forehanded, foresighted, forethoughtful, provident

Antonyms conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, scrimping, skimping, thrifty