prodigal definition
prodigal means a person who is major in age but is a habitual spendthrift or has extravagant habits and is adjudged by a court as being incapable of managing his assets;
prodigal literally means “wasteful”
prodigal means lavish, reckless, and wasteful. In verse 30, the Older Brother says he had wasted all of his inheritance on prostitutes!
More Definitions of prodigal
prodigal is an English word that means recklessly extravagant, spending to the point of poverty. The dictionaries tell us that the word can be understood in a more negative or a more positive sense. The more positive meaning is to be lavishly and sacrificially abundant in giving. The more negative sense is to be wasteful and irresponsible in one’s spend- ing. (Some people think prodigal means ‘wayward,’ but there is no dictionary that indicates that the word means ‘immoral.’) The neg- ative sense obviously applies to the actions of the younger broth- er in the Luke 15 parable. But is there any sense in which God can be called ‘prodigal’? I think so.
prodigal means a person who is major in age but is a habitual spendthrift or has extravagant habits and is adjudged by a court