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How to pronounce “prodigal”
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Pronunciation guide for prodigal
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of prodigal with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Religion and the Opening Up of the Mind
Now reread the prodigal son, if you want the physics there.
- Definition summary
- Wastefully extravagant.
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce prodigal
Religion and the Opening Up of the Mind
Now reread the prodigal son, if you want the physics there.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “prodigal”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Wastefully extravagant.
- (often followed by of or with) Yielding profusely, lavish.
- Profuse, lavishly abundant.
- (by allusion to the New Testament story commonly called "The Parable of the Prodigal Son", Luke 15:11–32) Behaving as a prodigal son:
- [Noun]
- A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.
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