Hyphenation of profligates

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word profligates? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

prof-li-gates

Definitions of profligates:

1.	A dissolute man in fashionable society
2.	A recklessly extravagant consumer
3.	Recklessly wasteful Prodigal in their expenditures
4.	Unrestrained by convention or morality Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society Deplorably dissipated and degraded Riotous living Fast women

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