Crossword-Solution: PRODIGAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prodigal | a. | Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses. |
| Prodigal | n. | One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift. |
We have 37 clues for the answer “PRODIGAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Inclined to spend wastefully | 1 answer |
| Like a certain Biblical son | 1 answer |
| Like a noted "son" | 1 answer |
| Like the son in a Biblical parable | 1 answer |
| Like the son in a Biblical teaching | 1 answer |
| Like the son in a parable of Jesus | 1 answer |
| Son in a parable | 1 answer |
| Wastefully extravagant | 2 answers |
| Son of a kind | 2 answers |
| thriftless | 2 answers |
| spender | 3 answers |
| unthrifty | 3 answers |
| Spendthrift | 4 answers |
| part0164IMPROVIDENT person | 5 answers |
| Biblical son | 6 answers |
| EXTRAVAGANT person | 10 answers |
| BE EXTRAVAGANT | 11 answers |
| Wastrel | 34 answers |
| Immoderate | 35 answers |
| wasteful | 41 answers |
| gushy | 43 answers |
| unleashed | 44 answers |
| improvident | 49 answers |
| uncurbed | 50 answers |
| redundant | 55 answers |
| Unbound | 56 answers |
| Copious | 57 answers |
| unimpeded | 58 answers |
| Plentiful | 59 answers |
| munificent | 60 answers |
| Extravagant | 60 answers |
| Liberal | 64 answers |
| Wander | 64 answers |
| repetitive | 65 answers |
| bountiful | 65 answers |
| Lavish | 67 answers |
| Expansive | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRODIGAL (5)
The loggia floor was clothed with rugs and furnished with chairs and sofas; and the uncompleted surprise was there: in the form of a Christmas tree that was drenched with silver film in a most wonderful way; and on a table was a prodigal profusion of bright things which she was going to hang upon it today.
They passed each other, if they chanced to meet, with a slow, solemn, and mute greeting; for such was the rule of their Order, quoting thereupon the holy texts, “In many words thou shalt not avoid sin,” and “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” In a word, the stern ascetic rigour of the Temple discipline, which had been so long exchanged for prodigal and licentious indulgence, seemed at once to have revived at Templestowe under the severe eye of Lucas Beaumanoir.
For it was in fact a museum, in which an intelligent and prodigal hand had gathered all the treasures of nature and art, with the artistic confusion which distinguishes a painter’s studio.
The still, colossal mountains took him back again like a returning prodigal, and vaguely, without knowing why, he yielded to their influence--their immensity, their enormous power, crude and blind, reflecting themselves in his own nature, huge, strong, brutal in its simplicity.
For Tahiti is smiling and friendly; it is like a lovely woman graciously prodigal of her charm and beauty; and nothing can be more conciliatory than the entrance into the harbour at Papeete.
Quotes with PRODIGAL (3)
Realize this — your anger with God does not drive a wedge between you and Him. It is your silence that drives the wedge. - Prodigal Life
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.
Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open field wherein he himself can love. If the prodigal son had not believed that the father's love was already waiting for him, he would not have been able to make the journey home - even if his father's love welcomes him in a way he never would have dreamed of. The decisive thing is that the sinner has heard of a love that could be, and really is, there for him; he is not the one …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1973–2022).