Definitions for prodigals

prodigals prod·i·gal

Spelling: [prod-i-guh l]
IPA: /ˈprɒd ɪ gəl/

Prodigals is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 632 anagrams from letters in prodigals (adgiloprs).

Definitions for prodigals

noun

  1. a person who spends, or has spent, his or her money or substance with wasteful extravagance; spendthrift.

adjective

  1. wastefully or recklessly extravagant:
  2. giving or yielding profusely; lavish (usually followed by of or with):
  3. lavishly abundant; profuse:

Origin of prodigals

First recorded in 1500-10; back formation from prodigality

Examples for prodigals

Swine were the natural companions of the prodigal, and the sooner he was with them the better!

Who, think you, does more injustice, a prodigal man or a saving man?

The Lacunaby Barbara Kingsolver  Her first novel since prodigal Summer.

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.

Here, too, are the ironies whereof departed life is prodigal.

I am prodigal enough at times, but I will not part with such a treasure as that.

But for her Paula would not have returned, like the prodigal son, to the father's house.

In going to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was the prodigal son playing in his homeland.

No one knows, but on the 4th of July he began bellowing that the prodigal Son would, in fact, return.

Word Value for prodigals
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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