too willing to spend money or waste time, energy or materials synonym extravagant揮霍無度:花費過多金錢或浪費時間,精力或材料的行爲或習慣 a prodigal administration 鋪張浪費的行政機關
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProdigal is used with these nouns:- son
Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin prodigalis, from Latin prodigus ‘lavish’.
Idioms
the/a prodigal (son)
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home 回頭的浪子;改邪歸正的人