prodigality
adjectiveHow to pronounce prodigality:
Definition of prodigality:
- prodigality (adjective):
- characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure lavish
Synonyms for prodigality:
abandon
dissipation
excess
extravagance
high life
highlife
immoderation
indulgence
intemperance
lavishness
luxury
profligacy
recklessness
squandering
wantonness
wastage
waste
wastefulness
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- irrepressible
- inappropriate
- exclamatory
- superstitious
- instinctually
- semiaquatic
- overpowering
- ophthalmologist
- notification
- incrementally
- uncompromising
- unappetizing
- overextended
- proprietary
- devastatingly
- incredulously
- mechanically
- commonalities
- felicitation
- underestimate
- eighteen sixty nine
- proliferation
- extraordinaire
- imaginative
- secondarily
- pandemonium
- unsociable
- transcontinental
- directionless
- ambisexual
- ottava rima
- imperceptible
- remunerative
- microorganisms
- compartmentalize
- alternatively
- irretractable
- habitually
- imperturbable
- pseudopodia
- obliviously
- Machiavellian
- perspicacious
- ineffectual
- juxtaposition
- deliberately
- secretariat
- particularly
- pulchritudinous
- occasionally
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