Spendthrift

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.
  • adj. Wasteful or extravagant: spendthrift bureaucrats.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
  • adj. Wasteful, improvident or profligate.
  • adj. Lavish or extravagant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
  • adj. Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who spends lavishly, improvidently, or foolishly; an unthrifty spender; a prodigal.
  • Wastefully spending or spent; lavish; improvident; wasteful; prodigal: as, a spendthrift heir; spendthrift ways.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who spends money prodigally
  • adj. recklessly wasteful
  • Equivalent
    wasteful   
    Cross Reference
    waster   
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    Words with the same meaning
    prodigal    extravagant    wasteful   
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    libertine    debauchee    Spender    voluptuary    drunkard    wastrel    swindler    dissolute    rake    adulterer