spendthrift

Speech parts

1. spendthrift - Noun

2. spendthrift - Adjective

3. spendthrift - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.

Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spender prodigal extravagant scattergood profligate spend-all free liberal big spender extreme sport excessive generous inefficient stiff

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Antonyms

miser thrifty skinflint frugal Jew franciscan

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Hypernyms

prodigal profligate squanderer

Hyponyms

big spender high roller

Phrases with the word

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Examples

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. Robert Louis Stevenson

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. George Bancroft

The spendthrift beats his money as if it were a carpet. Japanese Proverb

Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing. Spanish Proverb

A miser's son is generally a spendthrift. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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